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?

Answer 1

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'.