Purge a Document by Business Key

Purge a Document by Business Key

Find a document by business key, delete it, and verify it is unreachable by both get and search.

1. Resolve the internal document id from the business key with a term query. The workflow requires exactly a match here; a zero-hit result fails the step because there is nothing to purge.
2. Delete the located document by its internal id.
3. Attempt a direct get of the deleted id. A 404 is the required outcome and is the first half of the erasure evidence.
4. Re-run the original business key query. Zero hits is the required outcome and is the second half of the erasure evidence, confirming the document is gone from the searchable view and not only from direct retrieval.

What you'll need to have ready

• index: The index holding the document to purge.
• keyField: The keyword field carrying the business key (e.g. "email").
• keyValue: The business key value identifying the document to purge.

For your developer

Arazzo workflow elasticsearch:purge-document, 4 operations: searchDsl → deleteDocument → getDocument → searchDsl. Specs on APIs.io.