Delete an object from an Elasticsearch response array

Question

I'm trying to delete and object from my Elasticsearch result query, but this object persist whatever I do:

Here is my code :

exports.searchUserByKeyWord = (req, res) => {
    User.search(byKeyWordQuery(req), geoDistance(), (err, users) => {
        if (err) requestError(res, err)
            let result = []
            for(let user of users.hits.hits) {
                delete user.address.full
                result.push(user)
            }
        sendJsonResponse(res, 200, result)
    })
}

Like you can see I'm using delete but it doesn't work, what I can't understand here is the fact that when I replace sendJsonResponse(res, 200, result) with sendJsonResponse(res, 200, result[0].address.full) I found out that this address got successfully deleted, but when I test my API with Postman without adding result[0].address.full the address full field is still there ...

Answer 1

are you reindexing your elasticsearch data after you delete? the indexed record may persist even though you have removed the document from disk

more on this can be read @ https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/update-doc.html