How to choose between development or production environment in a Doctype class

Hi,

I have this Doctype class to work with persistence in my project.

#developtment is a boolean variable.

from config import cluster,cluster_test, development
from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
from elasticsearch.helpers import scan

if development:
    # We change to cluster from development
    es = Elasticsearch(cluster_test)
    connections.create_connection(hosts = cluster_test)

else:
    es = Elasticsearch(cluster)
    connections.create_connection(hosts = cluster)


class MyExampleClass(DocType):

    MyString = String(index='not_analyzed')
    AnotherParameter = String(index='not_analyzed')
    timestamp = Date()
    updated_at = Date()

There is another way to declare this class to connect this class to production or development environment without modify the development variable in the configuration file and passing development as a paremeter to this class.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards

[juandasgandaras]

ok, thanks for your help !!

[honzakral]

Happy to help. Note that you really shouldn’t need access to the Elasticsearch instance for the most common operations - all the dsl methods support using kwarg which you can just pass the alias (dev in this case) as a string.