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Deleting a thesaurus - Amazon Kendra

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Deleting a thesaurus

The following procedures show how to delete a thesaurus.

Console

  1. In the left navigation pane, under the index you want to modify, choose Synonyms.

  2. On the Synonym page, select the thesaurus you want to delete.

  3. On the Thesaurus detail page, choose Delete and then confirm to delete.

CLI

To delete a thesarus to an index with the AWS CLI, call delete-thesaurus: 

aws kendra delete-thesaurus \
--index-id index-id \
--id thesaurus-id
Python
import boto3
from botocore.exceptions import ClientError

kendra = boto3.client("kendra")

print("Delete a thesaurus")

thesaurus_id = "thesaurus-id"
index_id = "index-id"

try:
    kendra.delete_thesaurus(
        Id = thesaurus_id,
        IndexId = index_id
    )

except ClientError as e:
        print("%s" % e)

print("Program ends.")
Java
package com.amazonaws.kendra;

import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kendra.KendraClient;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kendra.model.DeleteThesaurusRequest;

public class DeleteThesaurusExample {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

    KendraClient kendra = KendraClient.builder().build();

    String thesaurusId = "thesaurus-id";
    String indexId = "index-id";

    DeleteThesaurusRequest updateThesaurusRequest = DeleteThesaurusRequest
        .builder()
        .id(thesaurusId)
        .indexId(indexId)
        .build();
    kendra.deleteThesaurus(updateThesaurusRequest);
  }
}