Elasticsearch: Delete document

You can delete a document using DELETE request.

GET xyz/employees/1

Above request gets following document.

{
   "_index": "xyz",
   "_type": "employees",
   "_id": "1",
   "_version": 6,
   "found": true,
   "_source": {
      "firstName": "Sunil Kumar",
      "lastName": "Kumar",
      "age": 36
   }
}

DELETE xyz/employees/1

Above request deletes document and give following response.

{
   "found": true,
   "_index": "xyz",
   "_type": "employees",
   "_id": "1",
   "_version": 7
}

Try to delete the document again. You will get following kind of response.

{
   "found": false,
   "_index": "xyz",
   "_type": "employees",
   "_id": "1",
   "_version": 8
}

As you observe version number is getting incremented every time, you request for DELETE operation. This is part of internal book keeping.

Note:

DELETE operation will not delete the document immediately. Elastic search mark the document as to be deleted, it deletes the documents in some time.

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