deleteUser #

Delete the provided user.

There is a small delay between the time a user is deleted and it being reflected in the search layer (usually a couple of seconds). That means that a user that has just been deleted may still be returned by the searchUsers function at first.

deleteUser(id, [options], [callback]) #

Arguments	Type	Description
`id`	string	Unique user identifier to delete
`options`	JSON Object	Optional parameters
`callback`	function	(Optional) Callback handling the response

Options #

Option	Type	Description	Default
`queuable`	boolean	Make this request queuable or not	`true`
`refresh`	string	If set to `wait_for`, Kuzzle will wait the persistence layer to finish indexing (available with Elasticsearch 5.x and above)	`undefined`

Return Value #

Returns the Security object to allow chaining.

Callback Response #

Return the id of the user that has been deleted.

Usage #

// Using callbacks (NodeJS or Web Browser)
kuzzle
  .security
  .deleteUser('myuser', function(error, result) {
  });
// Using promises (NodeJS)
kuzzle
  .security
  .deleteUserPromise('myuser')
  .then((result) => {
  });

Callback response

"deleted user identifier"

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