Elasticsearch-dsl-py: How to use track_total_hits ?

[azro352]

The track_total_hits is in ES 7, and so is in this lib doc, but I can’t figure out to use it

Search(track_total_hit=True)

Throws : Super(Search,self).__init__(**kwargs) got en unexpected keyword

I think it’s because the super init has no kwargs and only 3 required param but how to use it so ?

[azro352]

Ow I think I get it, I brain myself between elastic and elastic-dsl docs, it's in the basic one that track_total_hit is implemented, I'll try it tomorrow ^^

[HonzaKral]

the proper solution is:

s = Search()
s = s.extra(track_total_hits=True)

Hope this helps!

[miff2000]

This should really be mentioned in the docs here (or somewhere else obvious). We spend much too much time wondering why we were only getting a max 10,000 hits

[sethmlarson]

@miff2000 I would accept a PR documenting this.

[miff2000]

@sethmlarson I've put in the PR mentioned above. I added under the Hits section instead as it's the hit total that's affected by it