Drop Collection

Drops a collection. This operation erases your collection data. Exercise caution when performing this operation.

Example

Drop a collection named medium_articles:

curl --request POST \
     --url "${MILVUS_HOST}:${MILVUS_PORT}/v1/vector/collections/drop" \
     --header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
     --header "accept: application/json" \
     --header "content-type: application/json" \
     -d '{
        "collectionName": "medium_articles"
      }'

Success response:

{
    "code": 200,
    "data": {}
}

Request

Parameters

• No query parameters required

• No path parameters required

Request Body

{
    "collectionName": "string"
}

Parameter	Description
collectionName	string(required) The name of the collection to delete.

Response

Returns an empty object.

Response Bodies

• Response body if we process your request successfully

{
    "code": 200,
    "data": {}
}

• Response body if we failed to process your request

{
    "code": integer,
    "message": string
}

Properties

The properties in the returned response are listed in the following table.

Property	Description
code	integer Indicates whether the request succeeds. 200: The request succeeds. Others: Some error occurs.
data	object A data object.
message	string Indicates the possible reason for the reported error.

Possible Errors

Error Code	Description
800	database not found
1800	user hasn’t authenticate
1801	can only accept json format request
1802	missing required parameters