Add admin interface for reindexing a project search

[agjohnson]

We have a management command for this, but a site admin command probably makes a lot more sense. Let's move the management command to a site admin feature.

Work required:

• On Project admin, a command that reindexes all active versions (project queryset and all attached active versions)
• On Version admin, a command that reindexes by version queryset instead
• Drop management command, these aren't good interfaces for site admins and are mostly hidden
• The management command seems to just do all versions active or not, we should probably test for active versions instead.
• There should also be an admin function to wipe the index for a version and for a project

I wiped project indexes manually with:

query = {'query': {'bool': {'must': [{'term': {'project': 'docs'}}]}}}
PageIndex.delete_document(query)
SectionIndex.delete_document(query)

[srikant-ch5]

Hi @agjohnson I am interested to work on this issue. I just wanted to ask can someone who is new to this project like me can solve this issue?

[stsewd]

Thanks for the interest, I think this kind of depends on #4722

[dojutsu-user]

@agjohnson I would like to take this issue up.
Can you please guide me on how to get started with this.

[agjohnson]

@dojutsu-user great! It might be easiest to raise any specific questions you have. I've outlined the necessary development pieces above, but if you're not familiar with the internal pieces, like Django admin function or Django's management commands, there is a lot of great resources on these in the Django docs.

I will say that this might be blocked by the search upgrade work that we did recently, and have had to back out because of operations issues. I'll ping @ericholscher as he might have a better idea as to whether it makes sense to address this issue now, or after the search work is remerged.

[ericholscher]

Should be easy enough to do it now, but we should build it knowing that the functionality that we call to index things might change, but that should be a small change in this part of the code.

[dojutsu-user]

We have a management command for this

I am assuming that this command is python manage.py reindex_elasticsearch -p <project_name>.
right?

I will be making an initial PR soon.

[dojutsu-user]

One doubt, by the terms Project Admin, Version Admin, did you mean the project and version admin interface provided by the django or the one which is on RTD like readthedocs.org/dashboard/<project-slug>/edit/ ?

[agjohnson]

These should be implemented as site admin features -- that is, in the Django admin.

[dojutsu-user]

This issue can be closed now.

[ericholscher]

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