Learning Elasticsearch

Deleting an existing document

For creating and retrieving a document, we used the POST and GET methods. For deleting an existing document, we need to use the HTTP DELETE method and pass the unique identifier of the document in the URL as shown here:

DELETE http://localhost:9200/chapter1/product/1

Let's inspect the request:

INDEX	chapter1
TYPE	product
IDENTIFIER	1
HTTP METHOD	DELETE

The response from Elasticsearch is shown here:

{   "found": true,   "_index": "chapter1",   "_type": "product",   "_id": "1",   "_version": 4,   "_shards": {     "total": 1,     "successful": 1,     "failed": 0   } }

In the response, you can see that Elasticsearch was able to find the document with the unique identifier 1 and was successful in deleting the document.  ...