I am building some abstraction functions for my application to call, which will hit elasticsearch through Nest. One of such functions is a Delete(string id) call, which is easy to accomplish. I have done this as follows:
public void Delete(string id)
{
esClient.Delete(id);
}
Now let's say I want to do the same thing, but operate on several documents simultaneously. My original hunch was to do something like this:
public void Delete(IEnumerable<string> ids)
{
esClient.DeleteMany(ids); // won't compile
}
As my comment states, doing this won't compile. What is the proper way of batch deleting documents by ID in Nest?
To use esClient.DeleteMany(..) you have to pass collection of objects to delete.
var objectsToDelete = new List<YourType> {.. };
var bulkResponse = client.DeleteMany<YourType>(objectsToDelete);
You can get around this by using following code:
var ids = new List<string> {"1", "2", "3"};
var bulkResponse = client.DeleteMany<YourType>(ids.Select(x => new YourType { Id = x }));
Third option, use bulk delete:
var bulkResponse = client.Bulk(new BulkRequest
{
Operations = ids.Select(x => new BulkDeleteOperation<YourType>(x)).Cast<IBulkOperation>().ToList()
});
I was working on a .NET client for ElasticSearch 5.x, and I was fortunate to have the following code running (as well as succeeding all unit tests) for bulk deletion using ID's:
//IList<string> ids = ...
var descriptor = new BulkDescriptor();
foreach (var id in ids.Where(x => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(x)))
descriptor.Delete<T>(x => x
.Id(id))
.Refresh(Refresh.WaitFor);
var response = await _client.BulkAsync(descriptor);