How do you delete all indexes in elastic search using node.js?

Question

The documentation recommends the following function to delete a specific index:

client.delete({
  index: 'myindex',
  type: 'mytype',
  id: '1'
}, function (error, response) {
  // ...
});

Which I have adapted to:

client.delete({
  index: '_all'
}, function (error, response) {
  // ...
});

But that gives me the following error:

Unable to build a path with those params. Supply at least index, type, id

I've been searching around for a couple of hours to no avail, anyone have any ideas?

The method you copied is for deleting a document, not an index. You want this call. — Tony
– Tony, Commented Aug 10, 2015 at 18:52
@Tony Could you give an example of how that call would look in practice? I was reviewing that before, but couldn't make sense of how the actual call would look like with the desired parameters. — NYC Tech Engineer
– NYC Tech Engineer, Commented Aug 10, 2015 at 19:25
@Tony Nevermind, figured it out. Had to pass in the parameters as a JSON object, my bad. Not that experienced with JavaScript programming yet. — NYC Tech Engineer
– NYC Tech Engineer, Commented Aug 10, 2015 at 19:28
You should post your working code as an answer you can accept for completeness. — Tony
– Tony, Commented Aug 10, 2015 at 19:34
Not at all. It's fairly common. I'd be more annoyed to see a question with your comment saying, "I figured it out." and then see nothing like the countless forum posts online. =) — Tony
– Tony, Commented Aug 10, 2015 at 19:41

NYC Tech Engineer · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-10 20:44:41Z

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So, turns out I was using the wrong method. The below should take care of deleting all the indexes.

client.indices.delete({
    index: '_all'
}, function(err, res) {

    if (err) {
        console.error(err.message);
    } else {
        console.log('Indexes have been deleted!');
    }
});

You can introduce specific index names within that 'index' parameter, and you can also use '*' as an alternate to '_all'.

answered Aug 10, 2015 at 20:44

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Lion789 Over a year ago

What about removing just based on a type?

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