How to delete all the content and not mapping in elasticsearch index using Java API

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I have an index called event which has around 250 records. I want to delete this 250 records without deleting the full mapping.

DeleteIndex delete = new DeleteIndex.Builder("events").build();
client.execute(delete);

the above code deletes the full event index. How can to only delete the content?

Mickael · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-11 12:55:53Z

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Based on ElasticSearch documentation Delete By Query API, you can delete all documents within an index using a query as following :

POST twitter/tweet/_delete_by_query
{
  "query": {
    "match_all": {}
  }
}

With ElasticSearch Java API "Delete By Query API" documentation :

BulkByScrollResponse response =
    DeleteByQueryAction.INSTANCE.newRequestBuilder(client)
        .filter(QueryBuilders.matchQuery("gender", "male")) 
        .source("persons")                                  
        .get();                                             

long deleted = response.getDeleted();

Please note that this answer is suitable for ElasticSearch 6.1 but may differ for other versions of ElasticSearch.

I hope this will help you.

answered Jan 11, 2018 at 12:55

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Suyash · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-12 09:32:25Z

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Since I am using spring data I was able to resolve this issue using deleteAll funtion.

eventRepo.deleteAll();

did the trick for me.

answered Jan 12, 2018 at 9:32

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