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Maryam Hoorzad
Maryam Hoorzad

Reputation: 31

django throwing error "Cannot convert model field category to an Elasticsearch field!"

I'm making my models work with elastic search and I added simple code in documents.py in my app directory but

$ ./manage.py search_index --rebuild

Gives

"django_elasticsearch_dsl.exceptions.ModelFieldNotMappedError: Cannot convert model field category to an Elasticsearch field!"

models.py

from django.db import models
from django.urls import reverse

class Category(models.Model):

    name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
    slug = models.SlugField( default="cslug")
    picture = models.FileField(upload_to="static/product_pics/")
    parent = models.ForeignKey('self', blank=True,null=True,on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name='children')

    class Meta :
        ordering = ('name', )
        unique_together = ('slug', 'parent',)
        verbose_name_plural = 'Categories'

    def get_absolute_url(self):
        return reverse('store:productlist', args=[])

    def __str__(self):
        full_path = [self.name]
        k=self.parent

        while k is not None:
            full_path.append(k.name)
            k=k.parent

        return '->'.join(full_path[::-1])

documents.py

from django_elasticsearch_dsl import Document
from django_elasticsearch_dsl.registries import registry
from .models import Category, Brand, Product

@registry.register_document
class CategoryDocument(Document):
    class Index:
        name = 'categories'
        settings = {'number_of_shards': 1,
                    'number_of_replicas': 0}

    class Django:
        model = Category

        fields = [
            'name',
        ]

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2133

Answers (1)

Takoda
Takoda

Reputation: 354

https://django-elasticsearch-dsl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fields.html

The problem is the ForeignKey. Elasticsearch is not a relational database, so you have to tell it some way to store your ForeignKey data

try

@registry.register_document
class CategoryDocument(Document):
    parent = fields.ObjectField(properties={
        'name': fields.TextField()
    })

    class Index:
        name = 'categories'
        settings = {'number_of_shards': 1,
                    'number_of_replicas': 0}

    class Django:
        model = Category

        fields = [
            'name',
        ]
        related_models = [Category]

Here, the ForeignKey data is stored as a text field.

Upvotes: 2

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