Deleting a document

Deleting documents in ElasticSearch is possible in two ways: by using the DELETE call or the DELETE BY QUERY call; we will learn about it in the next chapter.

Getting ready

You will need a working ElasticSearch cluster and the indexed document of the Indexing a document recipe in this chapter.

How to do it...

The REST API URL is the same as the GET calls, but the HTTP method is DELETE:

http://<server>/<index_name>/<type_name>/<id>

To delete a document, we will perform the following steps:

  1. If we consider the order index in the Indexing a document recipe, the call to delete a document will be:
    curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/myindex/order/2qLrAfPVQvCRMe7Ku8r0Tw'
  2. The result returned by ElasticSearch should be:
    { "_id": "2qLrAfPVQvCRMe7Ku8r0Tw", ...

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