delete_by_query from Search.delete()

[jdratlif]

I am trying to run a delete_by_query by using the delete() method of my Search object, but it times out.

What can I do to make sure it keeps running until completion?

This is the exception I get
elasticsearch.exceptions.ConnectionTimeout: ConnectionTimeout caused by - ReadTimeoutError(HTTPSConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=9200): Read timed out. (read timeout=300))

Trying to add a request_timeout parameter led me to a

search.delete(request_timeout=0)

TypeError: delete() got an unexpected keyword argument 'request_timeout'

TypeError exception.

The docs for the delete_by_query call say that by default it keeps running until it is finished, so there must be something I need to do with timeout to make sure it does.

Thanks.

[sethmlarson]

To set request_timeout=0 you have to use Search.params() like so: Search.params(request_timeout=0).delete()

or if you want to execute the query asynchronously you can call with Search.params(wait_for_completion=False).delete(). This will respond with a Task which you can check the status of using the Elasticsearch.tasks.* APIs.

Let me know if this doesn't solve your problem