Merge pull request #146 from apache/fix/cluster-node-delete

fix: node doc delete missing ?rev
apache · Jul 19, 2017 · 18801c0 · 18801c0
2 parents ad906f5 + 6d6dc64
commit 18801c0
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diff --git a/src/cluster/nodes.rst b/src/cluster/nodes.rst
@@ -74,8 +74,16 @@ Removing a node
 Before you remove a node, make sure that you have moved all
 :ref:`shards <cluster/sharding/move>` away from that node.
 
-To remove ``node2`` from server ``yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy``:
+To remove ``node2`` from server ``yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy``, you need to first know the
+revision of the document that signifies that node’s existence:
 
 .. code-block:: text
 
-    curl -X DELETE "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5986/_nodes/node2@yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy" -d {}
+    curl "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5986/_nodes/node2@yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy"
+    {"_id":"node2@yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy","_rev":"1-967a00dff5e02add41820138abb3284d"}
+
+With that ``_rev``, you can now proceed to delete the node document:
+
+.. code-block:: text
+
+    curl -X DELETE "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5986/_nodes/node2@yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy?rev=1-967a00dff5e02add41820138abb3284d"