Is it possible to delete all the documents in index ?

Question

I'm attempting to remove all documents from the index using a for loop. Although the output shows "delete new document succeeded: True," it doesn't reflect in the search index or the document count on the Azure AI Search portal dashboard.

Is it possible to delete all the documents in index ?

Is using a for loop to delete all documents from the index the correct approach? If not, please suggest an alternative method to delete all documents in index.

for doc_id in vector_store:
    print(doc_id)

    result = search_client.delete_documents(documents=[{"id": "doc_id"}])

    print("Delete new document succeeded: {}".format(result[0].succeeded))

Answer 1

Thanks for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A forum.

To delete all documents in an Azure Cognitive Search index, I would use the delete_index method provided by the SDK.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/python/api/azure-search-documents/azure.search.documents.indexes.searchindexclient?view=azure-python#azure-search-documents-indexes-searchindexclient-delete-index

Deletes a search index and all the documents it contains. The model must be provided instead of the name to use the access conditions.

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Answer 2

@Elamathi R Thanks for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A, apologize for any inconvenience caused on this.

I understand that you want to delete all the documents under the index then you can use this rest api .

If you are deleting the files/documents from vector index and you notice the space of the index is not show accurately then you can refer to my answer posted in the similar thread here.
Hope this helps let me know if you have any further questions on this.