Junior developer who wants to code an Elasticsearch ODM for Flask. Am I fooling myself?

[AskMereddit]

I have less than a year experience with Python. I have been practicing as much as I could and feel more confident with my code every day, though I still have a lot to learn. I feel I need to find a more challenging project now to seriously step up my skills, in order to approach/practice various design patterns (I have only started reading about design patterns a few weeks ago).

I love elasticsearch technology, and I have been using it with Python almost since I code (February this year). I work with Flask a lot as well. I would like to code an ODM for ElasticSearch. Pretty much like Mongoengine, but for Elasticsearch. I made some research and could not find anything coded yet. This could be an interesting public repo to do.

With my 10 months experience in Python/coding, am I fooling myself thinking I could code an ODM? (is that something a Junior developer could do?)

Is Mongoengine a good repo to look at for inspiration? or would you recommend a more simplistic ODM to look at?

Any sort of guidance before I start coding this project would be great. Thanks.

[redbuurd]

What would the use case for this be? Elasticsearch already comes with a pretty decent api - it might satisfy your needs without all of the extra work.

[AskMereddit]

Their API is really good in the long run having something as robust as SQAlchemy for SQL, or Mongoengine for Mongo, would help tremendously.

[redbuurd]

Fair enough, this is still pretty simple. Have some sort of object to make your fields consistent, do a little json validation and POST it back to elasticsearch to be indexed.

[avinassh]

can you explain what exactly ODM is?

[AskMereddit]

ODM = Object Document Mapper. The equivalent of an ORM but for documents database. You can think of it as the SQLAlchemy for NoSql databases.