Delete all from a type using ElasticSearch.net

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Having troubles deleting an entire type from elasticsearch.net

public void DeleteIndexedItemsbyType(string indexType)
{
ConnectionConfiguration config = new ConnectionConfiguration(new Uri(this.uri));
ConnectionConfiguration exposed = config.ExposeRawResponse(true);
ElasticsearchClient client = new ElasticsearchClient(config, null, null, null);

           //Here's where I go wrong not sure what to put into the delete since i don't want a specific ID
            var bulk = new object[]
            {
               { "delete" : { "_index" : "test", "_type" : "type1", "_id" : "2" } }
            }
            client.Bulk(bulk);

}

2

In Sense I would do this:

DELETE indexname/typename

How do I do the equivalent with ElasticSearch.net?

3

Hi Garett,

Hope you'd have found the solution by now. Can you please share me the sample code on how to delete all or delete a document matching given condition using Elasticsearch.net API.

Regards,
Sreeram

4

As of version 2.0 you can no longer delete an entire type easily. You can delete by query with delete by query plugin.

For just deleting a single ID I did it like this.

ElasticSearchClient.Delete(elasticSearchIndex, entityName.ToLower(), idValue, null);

5

Thanks a lot for your response :slight_smile: