# Delete By Query using Java High Level Rest Client
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-using-java-high-level-rest-client/102507
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 3, 2017, 5:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-using-java-high-level-rest-client/102507 "2017-10-03T05:08:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@kumar1993](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumar1993)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2017, 5:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-using-java-high-level-rest-client/102507/1 "2017-10-03T05:08:23Z")
Is there a way to achieve delete by query using the java high level rest client ? previously i was using transport client to achieve the same thing, turns out that there is no straight forward way of doing this with the high level rest client.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2017, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-using-java-high-level-rest-client/102507/2 "2017-10-03T05:56:33Z")
I think this is something you could ask as a feature request on GitHub.
Not sure how hard it will be to implement though.
For now you need to write a query may be using query builders, transform as JSon string and pass the string to the low level client.
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### Author:  [@lengerad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lengerad)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2017, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-using-java-high-level-rest-client/102507/3 "2017-10-09T12:39:09Z")
I run into the same use case and found your topic here. I've created an issue on github so you can track the progress (hope it will be implemented)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2017, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-using-java-high-level-rest-client/102507/4 "2017-11-06T12:39:14Z")
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