So I know I can put search_auto_update = False on the Model in question, however I dont want to turn off indexing entirely.
I have a command which bulk syncs data from an API. Currently, on every Save, it's also triggering and index; this is inefficient and slow. It would make a lot more sense to disable indexing during the sync and then bulk-index the items at the end.
Is this possible? I tried setting search_auto_update as an key/value on the model before save, but it didn't seem to do anything (it looks like it needs to be an attribute on the class, rather than a model instance value).
The search indexing on save is done via signals, so I think this SO answer for how to temporarily disable signals should work. In short, use FactoryBoy's mute_signals decorator