Search returning Document

Given a Doc that is a Document, I expected Doc.search()... to return Docs rather than generic Hits, but this doesn’t seem to be the case. My goal is to dump a list of returned documents as JSON, and I would like to filter empty fields, just like doc.to_dict().

Is there a way to get the same behavior from Hit.to_dict() as Document.to_dict()? Is there a way to convert search responses into documents? Is there a more natural way to return search results as JSON, while filtering empty fields (including in nested documents)?

(This may all be related to #926. It’s possible that I’ve misconfigured doc_type.)

[honzakral]

@hongyuan1306 definitely, have a look at the alias_migration example here - https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-dsl-py/blob/master/examples/alias_migration.py#L38-L42

[NielkS]

@hongyuan1306 definitely, have a look at the alias_migration example here - https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-dsl-py/blob/master/examples/alias_migration.py#L38-L42

For the record (the script was edited since that reply), the magic happens in BlogPost._matches https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-dsl-py/blob/58c02732658018333cfd5fa2f7b70d942773b0be/examples/alias_migration.py#L60

It is called from elasticsearch_dsl.search.Request._get_result https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-dsl-py/blob/58c02732658018333cfd5fa2f7b70d942773b0be/elasticsearch_dsl/search.py#L235