Delete a document from ElasticSearch index by id

Question

I have a document in elastic search. I am trying to implement a method where I can specify a string id to delete a document from the index using NEST client. This is the indexed doc that I want to delete: ``` "hits":[{"_index":"movies","_type":"list","_id":"100","_score":0.6349302, "_source" : { "owner": "Bob", "tags": "Bobita", "title": "Movie clips of Bob" }} ``` This is my C# code which doesn't delete the doc. It says id is NULL. ``` Uri localhost = new Uri("http://localhost:9200"); var setting = new ConnectionSettings(localhost); setting.SetDefaultIndex("movies"); var client = new ElasticClient(setting); IDeleteResponse resp = client.Delete("100"); if (!resp.Found) { logger.Error("Failed to delete index with id=100"); } ``` What am I missing?

Accepted Answer

I believe the issue here is that NEST cannot properly infer the Id property of your document because you are not specifying a type.

If possible, try this instead:

```
client.Delete<YourMovieType>("100");
```

Delete a document from ElasticSearch index by id

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