# Delete by id **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 17, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-id/3582 "2010-11-17T19:24:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mooky](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mooky)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-id/3582/1 "2010-11-17T19:24:27Z")
Is there simple way to delete a document by id? (without having to build a query) ---
**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-id/3582/2 "2010-11-17T19:53:54Z")
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 11:24 -0800, Mooky wrote: > Is there simple way to delete a document by id? > (without having to build a query) curl -XDELETE '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/my\_index/my\_type/123](http://127.0.0.1:9200/my_index/my_type/123)' Amazing what one can find in the docs 😉 [http://www.elasticsearch.com/docs/elasticsearch/rest\_api/](http://www.elasticsearch.com/docs/elasticsearch/rest_api/) ---
**Author:** ![mooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mooky](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mooky)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-id/3582/3 "2010-11-17T23:43:57Z")
Sorry. I didnt add some context to my question - Im working with the java api. (java api docs are pretty light/sparse) -Nick On 17 November 2010 19:53, Clinton Gormley [clinton@iannounce.co.uk](mailto:clinton@iannounce.co.uk) wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 11:24 -0800, Mooky wrote: > > > Is there simple way to delete a document by id? > > (without having to build a query) > > curl -XDELETE '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/my\_index/my\_type/123](http://127.0.0.1:9200/my_index/my_type/123)' > > Amazing what one can find in the docs 😉 > > [http://www.elasticsearch.com/docs/elasticsearch/rest\_api/](http://www.elasticsearch.com/docs/elasticsearch/rest_api/) ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-id/3582/4 "2010-11-18T00:04:25Z")
Something wrong with this method on the client (the javadoc does not look sparse to me, but if it does to you, you are more than welcomed to send a pull request with improvements): ``` /** * Deletes a document from the index based on the index, type and id. * * @param index The index to delete the document from * @param type The type of the document to delete * @param id The id of the document to delete */ DeleteRequestBuilder prepareDelete(String index, String type, String ``` id); On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Nick Minutello [nick.minutello@gmail.com](mailto:nick.minutello@gmail.com)wrote: > Sorry. I didnt add some context to my question - Im working with the java > api. > (java api docs are pretty light/sparse) > > -Nick > > On 17 November 2010 19:53, Clinton Gormley [clinton@iannounce.co.uk](mailto:clinton@iannounce.co.uk)wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 11:24 -0800, Mooky wrote: > > > > > Is there simple way to delete a document by id? > > > (without having to build a query) > > > > curl -XDELETE '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/my\_index/my\_type/123](http://127.0.0.1:9200/my_index/my_type/123)' > > > > Amazing what one can find in the docs 😉 > > > > [http://www.elasticsearch.com/docs/elasticsearch/rest\_api/](http://www.elasticsearch.com/docs/elasticsearch/rest_api/) ---
**Author:** ![mooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mooky](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mooky)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-id/3582/5 "2010-11-18T05:01:29Z")
My Bad. I was looking at prepareDeleteByQuery ... momentary blindness :-/ On Nov 18, 12:04 am, Shay Banon [shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com](mailto:shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com) wrote: > Something wrong with this method on the client (the javadoc does not look > sparse to me, but if it does to you, you are more than welcomed to send a > pull request with improvements): > > ``` > /** > * Deletes a document from the index based on the index, type and id. > * > * @param index The index to delete the document from > * @param type The type of the document to delete > * @param id The id of the document to delete > */ > DeleteRequestBuilder prepareDelete(String index, String type, String > > ``` > > id); > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Nick Minutello [nick.minute...@gmail.com](mailto:nick.minute...@gmail.com)wrote: > > > Sorry. I didnt add some context to my question - Im working with the java > > api. > > (java api docs are pretty light/sparse) > > > -Nick > > > On 17 November 2010 19:53, Clinton Gormley [clin...@iannounce.co.uk](mailto:clin...@iannounce.co.uk)wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 11:24 -0800, Mooky wrote: > > > > > > > Is there simple way to delete a document by id? > > > > (without having to build a query) > > > > curl -XDELETE '[http://127.0.0.1:9200/my\_index/my\_type/123](http://127.0.0.1:9200/my_index/my_type/123)' > > > > Amazing what one can find in the docs 😉 > > > > [http://www.elasticsearch.com/docs/elasticsearch/rest\_api/](http://www.elasticsearch.com/docs/elasticsearch/rest_api/) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-id/3582/6 "2017-07-06T04:16:19Z")