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mDelete #

Deletes multiple documents.

The optional parameter refresh can be used with the value wait_for in order to wait for the document indexation (indexed documents are available for search).


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mDelete(index, collection, ids, [options]);
Argument Type Description
index
string
Index name
collection
string
Collection name
ids
string[]
IDs of the documents to delete
options
object
Query options

Options #

Additional query options

Options Type
(default)
Description
queuable
boolean

(true)
If true, queues the request during downtime, until connected to Kuzzle again
refresh
string

("")
If set to wait_for, waits for the change to be reflected for search (up to 1s)
silent
boolean

(false)
If true, then Kuzzle will not generate notifications
Available since 7.5.3
timeout
number

(-1)
Time (in ms) during which a request will still be waited to be resolved. Set it -1 if you want to wait indefinitely

Resolves #

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:

Name Type Description
id
string
Document ID
reason
string
Human readable reason

Usage #

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try {
  await kuzzle.document.create('nyc-open-data', 'yellow-taxi', {}, 'some-id');
  await kuzzle.document.create('nyc-open-data', 'yellow-taxi', {}, 'some-other-id');
  const response = await kuzzle.document.mDelete(
    'nyc-open-data',
    'yellow-taxi',
    ['some-id', 'some-other-id']
  );
  console.log(`Successfully deleted ${response.successes.length} documents`);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error.message);
}