[API] DELETE

DELETE rest/{database}/{collection}

Delete items in a collection.

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Comment
{database}	url	yes	database name
{collection}	url	yes	collection name
body	body	no	Querie identifing document to delete
query	header	yes if no body provided	Querie identifing document to delete
writeConcern	header	no	Write concern to use.

Result

Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Comment
body	body	yes	MongoDB getLastError content.
RecordsAffected	header	yes	Number of documents deleted

Examples

Succesfuly delete quering by field name

curl  -XDELETE -H "query:{'name' : 'Thomas'}" \
   http://localhost:8080/kupra/test/col

{
  "serverUsed" : "/127.0.0.1:27017" ,
  "n" : 1 ,
  "connectionId" : 2 ,
  "err" : null ,
  "ok" : 1.0
}

Delete all document with a certain field

curl  -XDELETE -H "query:{'toBeDeleted' : {\$exists : true}}" \
   http://localhost:8080/kupra/test/col

{
  "serverUsed" : "/127.0.0.1:27017" ,
  "n" : 1 ,
  "connectionId" : 2 ,
  "err" : null ,
  "ok" : 1.0
}