Delete documents of type in Elasticsearch

Question

I want to delete all the documents indexed within a type in Elasticsearch, using the HTTP/REST api, but I don\'t want to delete the mapping for this type

How can I build

Answer 1

$ curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/_query?q=user:kimchy'

$ curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/_query' -d '{
    "query" : {
        "term" : { "user" : "kimchy" }
    }
}