Elasticsearch : How to delete an Index using python

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AbtPst picture AbtPst · Feb 1, 2016 · Viewed 38.9k times · Source

Forgive me if this is quite basic but I have Python 2.7 and Elasticsearch 2.1.1 and I am just trying to delete an index using 

es.delete(index='researchtest', doc_type='test')

but this gives me 

return func(*args, params=params, **kwargs)
TypeError: delete() takes at least 4 arguments (4 given)

I also tried 

es.delete_by_query(index='researchtest', doc_type='test',body='{"query":{"match_all":{}}}')

but I get

AttributeError: 'Elasticsearch' object has no attribute 'delete_by_query'

Any idea why? Has the api changed for 2.1.1 for python?

https://elasticsearch-py.readthedocs.org/en/master/api.html#elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient.delete

Answer

ferdy picture ferdy · Feb 1, 2016

From the docs, use this notation:

from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
es = Elasticsearch()

es.indices.delete(index='test-index', ignore=[400, 404])

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