Creates the index in elasticsearch.

        Any additional keyword arguments will be passed to
        ``Elasticsearch.indices.create`` unchanged.

def create(self, using=None, **kwargs):
        """
        Creates the index in elasticsearch.

        Any additional keyword arguments will be passed to
        ``Elasticsearch.indices.create`` unchanged.
        """
        self._get_connection(using).indices.create(index=self._name, body=self.to_dict(), **kwargs)