Code base for MATRIX website

1. Clone or download the repository.

2. Create a new virtual environment for the project.

   virtualenv venv
   source venv/bin/activate

3. Install required python libraries giving in the requirements.txt file.

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run Django migrations.

   python manage.py makemigrations
   python manage.py migrate

5. Populate database with names from list.txt

   python populate_db.py

6. Perform bulk indexing of data.

   • Download elasticsearch and activate it.

   wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-5.1.1.tar.gz
   tar -xzf elasticsearch-5.1.1.tar.gz
   ./elasticsearch-5.1.1/bin/elasticsearch

   • Using another terminal (let elasticsearch run in the background), activate the virtualenv and go into the Django shell for bulk indexing of data.

   python manage.py shell
   
   from movie.search import *
   bulk_indexing()

   • To confirm bulk indexing of data quit the shell and run the following curl command.

   curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/movie-index?pretty' 

   • In case of Invoke-WebRequest error, run this command and try again.

   remove-item alias:\curl

7. To test out the search functionality run the following commands in the shell.

   python manage.py shell
   
   from movie.search import *
   print(search(name="<movie name>")) # use 'thor', for example.  

   • The response should be something like this.

   <Response: [<Hit(movie-index/doc/AWXKb2DCkOlAI_7rRErW): {u'release': u'thor', u'name': u'thor'}>, <Hit(movie-index/doc/AWXKb2DVkOlAI_7rRErX): {u'release': u'thor', u'name': u'thor'}>]>   

8. Start the application.

   python manage.py runserver