### Author:  [@Alex12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex12)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 9:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-bunch-of-documents-by-list-of-ids/254511/1 "2020-11-06T09:57:19Z")
Is it possible to delete list of documents by list of documents id?
i tryed like this but it does not work at all
`deleteAllByIdIn(List ids);` from `ElasticsearchRepository` and it does not work at all please guid me, maybe providing a query impelemntation please?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-bunch-of-documents-by-list-of-ids/254511/2 "2020-11-06T11:17:05Z")
Welcome!
This seems like a spring data related question and not really elasticsearch.
In elasticsearch, it's good to delete documents using the delete API or better the bulk API if you have a lot of them to delete.
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### Author:  [@Alex12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex12)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-bunch-of-documents-by-list-of-ids/254511/3 "2020-11-06T11:27:02Z")
Thank you very much, could you please provide a solution of how to do it using bulk API?
this is how my data looks like
```auto
{
"id":"1234",
"expirationDate":"17343234234",
"paths":"http:localhost:9090",
"work":"software dev",
"family":{
"baba":"jams",
"mother":"ela"
}
},
{
"id":"00021",
"expirationDate":"0123234",
"paths":"http:localhost:8080",
"work":"software engi",
"family":{
"baba":"stev",
"mother":"hela"
}
}
```
i need to delete all ids which its expirationDate before today`date are
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 12:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-bunch-of-documents-by-list-of-ids/254511/4 "2020-11-06T12:12:39Z")
Then you don't want to provide a list of ids but a query, right?
And use this API?
> **[Delete by query API | Elasticsearch Reference \[7.9\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-delete-by-query.html)**
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-bunch-of-documents-by-list-of-ids/254511/5 "2020-11-06T12:13:52Z")
> [@Alex12](#):
>
> i need to delete all ids which its expirationDate before today`date are
Better solution is to use time based indices and simply drop the older indices everyday.
Which can be automated with ILM:
> **[ILM: Manage the index lifecycle | Elasticsearch Guide \[8.11\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-lifecycle-management.html)**
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### Author:  [@Alex12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex12)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 12:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-bunch-of-documents-by-list-of-ids/254511/6 "2020-11-06T12:15:32Z")
Thanks, but i need a code using spring and not sending bunch of queries, where can i find such a code example please ? using QueryBuilder, can you provide me a code example about my case please? using QueryBuilder in springboot
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-bunch-of-documents-by-list-of-ids/254511/7 "2020-11-06T12:33:33Z")
Not sure it will answer your question but here is some code which uses Spring Boot (not Spring Data Elasticsearch) where I'm building
A BulkProcessor:
>
Delete documents by id:
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-bunch-of-documents-by-list-of-ids/254511/9 "2020-12-08T22:00:05Z")
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