get_mapping never called

[pziemkowski]

I'm writing a django app and would like to create some mappings using class extending Indexable and MappingType helpers. The problem is that get_mapping method is never called. I have checked the source code of those helpers and can't find any line that would lead to this call. Maybe I am doing something wrong?

Here's the definition of my get_mapping:

    @classmethod
    def get_mapping(cls):
        return {
            '_parent': {
                'type': 'user_type'
            },
            'properties': {
                'id': {'type': 'integer'},
                'item': {'type': 'integer'},
                'created': {'type': 'date'}
            }
        }

[willkg]

ElasticUtils doesn't (yet) have any code to create indexes. The get_mapping suggestion is there to give you some of the scaffolding you need to set up the code for creating an index with specified mappings.

[johnraz]

Just got caught by this... It would be nice to add something in the doc about it, not sure where to put it though. I would rather add it in the method's doc... Hint anyone ?

[alexinm]

Yeah, I spend too much time figuring out why my geo_point type is not created as such, basically right now it picks it up from ORM and not from mappings . Basically extract_document() in elasticutils.contrib.django.tasks.index_objects can only infer core types and not geo_point type for example