mDelete

Deletes multiple documents.

Query Syntax

HTTP

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URL: http://kuzzle:7512/<index>/<collection>/_mDelete[?refresh=wait_for]
Method: DELETE
Body:

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{
  "ids": ["<documentId>", "<anotherDocumentId>"]
}

Other protocols

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{
  "index": "<index>",
  "collection": "<collection>",
  "controller": "document",
  "action": "mDelete",
  "body": {
    "ids": ["<documentId>", "<anotherDocumentId>"]
  }
}

Arguments

collection: collection name
index: index name

Optional:

refresh: if set to wait_for, Kuzzle will not respond until the deletions are indexed

Body properties

ids: an array of document identifiers to delete

Response

Returns an object containing 2 arrays: successes and errors

The successes array contain the successfuly deleted document IDs.

Each deletion error is an object of the errors array with the following properties:

_id: document ID
reason: human readable reason

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{
  "status": 200,
  "error": null,
  "index": "<index>",
  "collection": "<collection>",
  "action": "mDelete",
  "controller": "document",
  "requestId": "<unique request identifier>",
  "result": {
    "successes": ["<documentId>"],
    "errors": [
      { 
        "_id": "anotherDocumentId", 
        "reason": "cannot find document" 
      }
    ]
  }
}