json/delete

This endpoint allows you to delete documents from indexes, similar to SphinxQL’s DELETE syntax.

Example:

{
  "index":"test",
  "id":1
}

The daemon will respond with a JSON object stating if the operation was successfull or not:

 {
  "_index": "test",
  "_id": 1,
  "found": true,
  "result": "deleted"
}

This deletes a document that has and id of 1 from an index named test.

As in json/update, you can do a delete by query.

{
  "index":"test",

  "query":
  {
    "match": { "*": "apple" }
  }
}

This deletes all documents that match a given query.

To delete a document in a cluster’s index cluster property should be set along with index property:

{
  "cluster":"nodes4",
  "index":"test",
  "id":1
}