Delete

Deletes one or more entities from a collection.

Example

Delete a collection whose ID is an integer:

export MILVUS_URI="http://localhost:19530"


curl --request POST \
     --url "${MILVUS_URI}/v1/vector/delete" \
     --header "accept: application/json" \
     --header "content-type: application/json" \
     -d '{
       "collectionName": "medium_articles",
       "id": 1
     }'

Delete a collection whose ID is a string:

export MILVUS_URI="http://localhost:19530"


curl --request POST \
     --url "${MILVUS_URI}/v1/vector/delete" \
     --header "accept: application/json" \
     --header "content-type: application/json" \
     -d '{
       "collectionName": "medium_articles",
       "id": "id1"
     }'

Delete a list of collections whose IDs are integers:

export MILVUS_URI="http://localhost:19530"


curl --request POST \
     --url "${MILVUS_URI}/v1/vector/delete" \
     --header "accept: application/json" \
     --header "content-type: application/json" \
     -d '{
        "collectionName": "medium_articles",
        "id": [1,2,3,4]
      }'

Delete a list of collections whose IDs are strings:

export MILVUS_URI="http://localhost:19530"


curl --request POST \
     --url "${MILVUS_URI}/v1/vector/delete" \
     --header "accept: application/json" \
     --header "content-type: application/json" \
     -d '{
        "collectionName": "medium_articles",
        "id": ["id1", "id2", "id3","id4"]
      }'

Request

Parameters

• No query parameters required

• No path parameters required

Request Body

{
    "collectionName": "string",
    "dbName": "string",
    "id": "string"
}

Parameter	Description
dbName	string The name of the database.
collectionName	string(required) The name of the collection to which this operation applies.
id	string(required) The ID of the entity to be retrieved

{
    "collectionName": "string",
    "dbName": "string",
    "id": []
}

Parameter	Description
dbName	string The name of the database.
collectionName	string(required) The name of the collection to which this operation applies.
id	array(required) An array of IDs of the entities to be retrieved

{
    "collectionName": "string",
    "dbName": "string",
    "id": "integer"
}

Parameter	Description
dbName	string The name of the database.
collectionName	string(required) The name of the collection to which this operation applies.
id	integer(required) The ID of the entity to be retrieved

{
    "collectionName": "string",
    "dbName": "string",
    "id": []
}

Parameter	Description
dbName	string The name of the database.
collectionName	string(required) The name of the collection to which this operation applies.
id	array(required) An array of IDs of the entities to be retrieved

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
1806	please check the primary key and its' type can only in [int