Delete Many

Deletes all the documents by a specified filter.

Use this API action when you request the mass deletion of your collection documents. You can set a filter to delete some portions of documents.

[DeleteMany] - Deletes all the documents by a specified filter.

Use this API action when you request the mass deletion of your collection documents. You can set a filter to delete some portions of documents. https://docs.codemash.io/api/database/collections/delete-many

delete

/{version}/db/{CollectionName}/bulk

Authorizations

Path parameters

CollectionNameanyrequired

Collection name - unique, lowercased, collection name without whitespace. E.g., if your collection title you have entered in the CodeMash dashboard is "Business Trips" then collection name would be "business-trips".

versionanyrequired

The CodeMash API version used to fetch data from the API. If not specified, the last version will be used. E.g.: v2

Header parameters

Acceptanyrequired

Accept Header

X-CM-Clusterany

API key of your cluster. Can be passed in a header as X-CM-Cluster.

X-CM-ProjectIdanyrequired

ID of your project. Can be passed in a header as X-CM-ProjectId.

CultureCodeany

Specify culture code when your response from the API should be localised. E.g.: en

Body

Filterstring

Deletes all the documents by a specified filter (in JSON format).

IgnoreTriggersboolean

Ignore the delete trigger when executing mass deletion. When this property is set to "true", all delete triggers won't be executed.

Responses

application/json

cURL

JavaScript

Python

HTTP

cURL

curl -L \
  --request DELETE \
  --url 'https://api.codemash.io//{version}/db/{CollectionName}/bulk' \
  --header 'Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  --data 'Filter=text&IgnoreTriggers=true'

200

200

{
  "response_status": {
    "error_code": "text",
    "message": "text",
    "stack_trace": "text",
    "meta": {
      "ANY_ADDITIONAL_PROPERTY": "text"
    },
    "errors": [
      {
        "error_code": "text",
        "field_name": "text",
        "message": "text",
        "meta": {
          "ANY_ADDITIONAL_PROPERTY": "text"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "result": {
    "deletedCount": 1,
    "isAcknowledged": true
  }
}

Success

.NET

var client = new CodeMashClient(apiKey, projectId);
var service = new CodeMashRepository<Person>(client);

await service.DeleteManyAsync(
    x => x.Name == "John"
);

Check the information about entities on how your filter parameters are mapped.

Node

PHP

use Codemash\CodemashClient;
use Codemash\CodemashDb;

class CodemashService
{
    protected CodemashDb $codemashDb;
    protected string $collectionName = '{YOUR_COLLECTION_NAME}';

    public function __construct()
    {
        $secretKey = '{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}';
        $projectId = '{YOUR_PROJECT_ID}';

        $client = new CodemashClient($secretKey, $projectId);
        $this->codemashDb = new CodemashDb($client);
    }

    public function deleteMany()
    {
        $client = new CodemashClient('{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}', '{YOUR_PROJECT_ID}');
        $codemashDb = new CodemashDb($client);
        
        $responseData = $this->codemashDb->deleteMany([
        	'collectionName' => 'employees',
        	'filter' => [
        		'address' => 'New York',
        	],
        ]);
    }
}