Question : Save without indexing, index a list of objects

[pulse-mind]

Hello,

Thanks for the job done here.

I have two questions:

• Is it possible to save an object, using the .save() and to pass an argument to not index in ES ?
• I have a list of objects and how to index then using a bulk method to be more efficient than "saving" them one by one ?

I am searching for solution because I am importing a lot of data and doing .save() on each object but I can see that the indexation one by one is taking a lot of time.
For the first huge import I disabled ES in Django and at the end run the search_index --rebuild but then in a run mode it does not sound good to me. So I am searching another solution...

[pulse-mind]

For people who wants to do the same, this is what I found :
Override handle_save signals by passing a private value _auto_refresh in the Object:

    def handle_save(self, sender, instance, **kwargs):        
        if hasattr(instance, '_auto_refresh') and instance._auto_refresh == False:
            logger.debug("Do not update ElasticSearch for this object {}".format(instance.mykey))
        else:
            registry.update(instance)
            registry.update_related(instance)

Check this : https://django-elasticsearch-dsl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/settings.html#elasticsearch-dsl-signal-processor

Then before calling .save() set this private value to False :

myobject._auto_refresh=False
myobject.save()

And then to index into ES the list :

MyObjectDocument().update(data_source_list)
# where MyObjectDocument is 
# @registry.register_document
# class MyObjectDocument(Document)