Delete a synonym rule

DELETE /_synonyms/{set_id}/{rule_id}

Auth

Delete a synonym rule from a synonym set.

Required privileges

Cluster privileges manage_search_synonyms

Path parameters

set_id string required: The ID of the synonym set to update.
rule_id string required: The ID of the synonym rule to delete.

Query parameters

refresh boolean · default: true The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability Generally available since 9.1 This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.: If true, the request will refresh the analyzers with the deleted synonym rule and wait for the new synonyms to be available before returning. If false, analyzers will not be reloaded with the deleted synonym rule

Response

application/json

result enum required: The update operation result.; Values: created updated deleted not_found noop
reload_analyzers_details object: Updating synonyms in a synonym set can reload the associated analyzers in case refresh is set to true. This information is the analyzers reloading result.

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Examples

Request Console 1 / 8 languages

Console Kibana Dev Tools

DELETE _synonyms/my-synonyms-set/test-1

JavaScript Elasticsearch JavaScript Client

const response = await client.synonyms.deleteSynonymRule({
  set_id: "my-synonyms-set",
  rule_id: "test-1",
});

Python Elasticsearch Python Client

resp = client.synonyms.delete_synonym_rule(
    set_id="my-synonyms-set",
    rule_id="test-1",
)

curl Shell

curl -X DELETE "$ELASTICSEARCH_URL/_synonyms/my-synonyms-set/test-1" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey $ELASTIC_API_KEY"

Java Elasticsearch Java Client

client.synonyms().deleteSynonymRule(d -> d
    .ruleId("test-1")
    .setId("my-synonyms-set")
);

C# Elasticsearch .NET Client

var response = await client.Synonyms.DeleteSynonymRuleAsync(setId: "my-synonyms-set", ruleId: "test-1");

PHP Elasticsearch PHP Client

$resp = $client->synonyms()->deleteSynonymRule([
    "set_id" => "my-synonyms-set",
    "rule_id" => "test-1",
]);

Ruby Elasticsearch Ruby Client

response = client.synonyms.delete_synonym_rule(
  set_id: "my-synonyms-set",
  rule_id: "test-1"
)

Response

A successful response from DELETE _synonyms/my-synonyms-set/test-1. All analyzers using this synonyms set will be reloaded automatically to reflect the rule being deleted.

{
  "result": "deleted",
  "reload_analyzers_details": {
    "_shards": {
      "total": 2,
      "successful": 1,
      "failed": 0
    },
    "reload_details": [
      {
        "index": "test-index",
        "reloaded_analyzers": [
          "my_search_analyzer"
        ],
        "reloaded_node_ids": [
          "1wYFZzq8Sxeu_Jvt9mlbkg"
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}