deleting-entities.md

Deleting Entities

delete

You can delete an entity by calling the delete method on it.

var user = getInstance( "User" ).find( 1 );
user.delete();

{% hint style="danger" %} The entity will still exist in any variables you have stored it in, even though it has been deleted from the database. {% endhint %}

deleteAll

Just like updateAll, you can delete many records from the database by specifying a query with constraints and then calling the deleteAll method.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
ids	array	false	[]	An optional array of ids to add to the previously configured query. The ids will be added to a WHERE IN statement on the primary key columns.

Deletes matching entities according to the configured query.

getInstance( "User" )
    .whereActive( false )
    .deleteAll();

Additionally, you can pass in an array of ids to deleteAll to delete only those ids. Note that any previously configured constraints will still apply.

getInstance( "User" ).deleteAll( [ 4, 10, 22 ] );