elasticsearch/docs/java-rest/high-level/document/delete.asciidoc

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:api: delete
:request: DeleteRequest
:response: DeleteResponse
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[id="{upid}-{api}"]
=== Delete API

[id="{upid}-{api}-request"]
==== Delete Request

A +{request}+ has two required arguments:

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-request]
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<1> Index
<2> Document id

==== Optional arguments
The following arguments can optionally be provided:

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-request-routing]
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<1> Routing value

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-request-timeout]
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<1> Timeout to wait for primary shard to become available as a `TimeValue`
<2> Timeout to wait for primary shard to become available as a `String`

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-request-refresh]
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<1> Refresh policy as a `WriteRequest.RefreshPolicy` instance
<2> Refresh policy as a `String`

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-request-version]
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<1> Version

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-request-version-type]
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<1> Version type

include::../execution.asciidoc[]

[id="{upid}-{api}-response"]
==== Delete Response

The returned +{response}+ allows to retrieve information about the executed
 operation as follows:

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-response]
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<1> Handle the situation where number of successful shards is less than
total shards
<2> Handle the potential failures


It is also possible to check whether the document was found or not:

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-notfound]
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<1> Do something if the document to be deleted was not found

If there is a version conflict, an `ElasticsearchException` will
be thrown:

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-conflict]
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<1> The raised exception indicates that a version conflict error was returned