ElasticSearch and NEST: How do you purge all documents from an index?

Question

I know how to delete an entire ElasticSearch index, but how do you purge all documents from an index?

My Motivation: I\'d like to have a \"ReIndex\" method that purg

Answer 1

I was looking for something similar in Nest and I thought I'd put the syntax here for anyone looking:

var node = new Uri("http://localhost:9200");
var settings = new ConnectionSettings(node);
var client = new ElasticClient(settings);

client.DeleteByQuery(del => del
    .Query(q => q.QueryString(qs=>qs.Query("*")))
);