[dustinfarris]

Thanks for the answer, and thanks for the links. I gave DRF+Haystack serious consideration already—in fact, I built a prototype using these packages. The reason I do not want to move forward with them is that they make the assumption that you will be using Django's ORM and some sort of SQL store for persistence with Elasticsearch bolted on top. My intention is to use Elasticsearch exclusively. I also want to use the API with Ember.js, which is difficult given the differing JSON format opinions between DRF and Ember.js (see ember-django-adapter[1]).

I've also noticed that Haystack's owner has been inactive recently which concerns me. This in itself gave me a reason to check out Elasticsearch's own Python bindings[2] which aren't that scary after all.

I am looking at Gorilla web toolkit (thanks for the link!).

[1]: https://github.com/dustinfarris/ember-django-adapter

[2]: https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-py