# Delete index from elasticsearch thru spark scala code **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** es-hadoop\ **Created:** [June 22, 2017, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-from-elasticsearch-thru-spark-scala-code/90464 "2017-06-22T13:33:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jobyjohny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eada6e/32.png) [@jobyjohny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jobyjohny)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-from-elasticsearch-thru-spark-scala-code/90464/1 "2017-06-22T13:33:59Z")
I am creating a spark object which contains the stats of a table and writing into elasticsearch val cases\_count\_stats = spark.sql("select col2,count(\*) from table group by col2" cases\_count\_stats.saveToEs("abc/def") How do I delete the index everything before I create it ? ---
**Author:** ![james.baiera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/james.baiera/32/10209_2.png) [@james.baiera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/james.baiera)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-from-elasticsearch-thru-spark-scala-code/90464/2 "2017-06-22T19:10:45Z")
Elasticsearch for Apache Spark supports the [OVERWRITE save mode](https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html#save-modes) from Spark's data source api. Could use that. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-from-elasticsearch-thru-spark-scala-code/90464/3 "2017-07-20T19:10:55Z")
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