Rebuild index quietly from doctype

[ahivert]

I want to test that some data are correctly created/updated in index.
Before each test I need to rebuild the index calling command search_index --rebuild --models app.django_models -f

It would be great if DocType had a classmethod to rebuild its index like this:

@classmethod
def rebuild(self):
    call_command('search_index', '--rebuild', '--models', 'app.django_model', '-f')

The management command should accept another argument like --quiet to not print anything during test

The final function could be:

@classmethod
def rebuild(self):
    call_command('search_index', '--rebuild', '--models', 'app.django_model', '-f', '--quiet')

What do you think (Can do the PR if you want) ?

[stevelacey]

I stumbled across your post, and whilst this isn't quite what you're asking for, this is how I went about doing full search tests:

indices.py

from django.conf import settings
from django_elasticsearch_dsl import Index as DDSLIndex


class Index(DDSLIndex):
    def __init__(self, name, **kwargs):
        if settings.TESTING:
            name = 'test_' + name
        super(Index, self).__init__(name, **kwargs)


asset = Index('assets')

👆 prefix every index with test_ in testing so that I don't clobber dev

mixins.py

from django_elasticsearch_dsl.registries import registry


class SearchTestMixin(object):
    """Search test mixin recreates the Elasticsearch indices every test"""
    def setup_method(self):
        for index in registry.get_indices():
            if index.exists():
                index.delete()
            index.create()

    def teardown_method(self):
        for index in registry.get_indices():
            index.delete()

👆 create/destroy every index every test

[sabricot]

@ahivert thanks again. I think it will be nice features to have, if you want to make a PR for this don't hesitate.