truncate #

Truncate the collection, removing all stored documents but keeping all associated mappings.

This method is a lot faster than removing all documents using multiple delete requests.

truncate([options], [callback]) #

Arguments	Type	Description
`options`	JSON Object	Optional parameters
`callback`	function	Optional callback

Options #

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

Return Value #

Returns the Collection object to allow chaining.

Callback Response #

Returns a JSON object containing the raw Kuzzle response.

Usage #

<?php
use \Kuzzle\Kuzzle;
$kuzzle = new Kuzzle('localhost');
$dataCollection = $kuzzle->collection('collection', 'index');
try {
  $dataCollection->truncate();
}
catch (ErrorException $e) {
}

Callback response:

{
  "status": 200,
  "error": null,
  "requestId": "8fdc0efb-6fc7-427d-a3a1-fd8cf5eabc20",
  "controller": "admin",
  "action": "truncateCollection",
  "collection": "name of the truncated collection",
  "index": "name of the index containing the truncated collection",
  "volatile": {},
  "state": "done",
  "result": { "acknowledged": true }
}