Python elasticsearch-dsl django pagination

Question

How can i use django pagination on elasticsearch dsl. My code:

query = MultiMatch(query=q, fields=[\'title\', \'body\'], fuzziness=\'AUTO\')

s = Search(usin         


        

Answer 1

Following the advice from Danielle Madeley, I also created a proxy to search results which works well with the latest version of django-elasticsearch-dsl==0.4.4.

from django.utils.functional import LazyObject

class SearchResults(LazyObject):
    def __init__(self, search_object):
        self._wrapped = search_object

    def __len__(self):
        return self._wrapped.count()

    def __getitem__(self, index):
        search_results = self._wrapped[index]
        if isinstance(index, slice):
            search_results = list(search_results)
        return search_results

Then you can use it in your search view like this:

paginate_by = 20
search = MyModelDocument.search()
# ... do some filtering ...
search_results = SearchResults(search)

paginator = Paginator(search_results, paginate_by)
page_number = request.GET.get("page")
try:
    page = paginator.page(page_number)
except PageNotAnInteger:
    # If page parameter is not an integer, show first page.
    page = paginator.page(1)
except EmptyPage:
    # If page parameter is out of range, show last existing page.
    page = paginator.page(paginator.num_pages)

Django's LazyObject proxies all attributes and methods from the object assigned to the _wrapped attribute. I am overriding a couple of methods that are required by Django's paginator, but don't work out of the box with the Search() instances.