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ElasticSearch Cookbook

By : Alberto Paro
Book Image

ElasticSearch Cookbook

By: Alberto Paro

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
ElasticSearch Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Deleting by query


In the Deleting a document recipe from Chapter 4, Basic Operations, we saw how to delete a document(). A document can be deleted very quickly, but it requires you to know the document ID.

ElasticSearch provides a call to delete all the documents that match a query.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and an index populated with the script (chapter_05/populate_query.sh) available in the code bundle for this book.

How to do it...

In order to execute a DELETE by query, perform the following steps:

  1. Using the command line, execute a query, as follows:

    curl -XDELETE 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/test-index/test-type/_query?pretty=true' -d '{"query":{"match_all":{}}}'
    
  2. The following result should be returned by ElasticSearch, if everything works all right:

    {
      "_indices" : {
        "test-index" : {
          "_shards" : {
            "total" : 5,
            "successful" : 5,
            "failed" : 0
          }
        }
      }
    }
  3. The result is composed of the shard's status at the time of the DELETE query...