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Drop Collection

This operation drops the current collection and all data within the collection.

POST
/v2/vectordb/collections/drop
Cluster Endpoint

The base URL for this API is in the following format:

http://localhost:19530

export CLUSTER_ENDPOINT="http://localhost:19530"
Parameters
Authorizationstringheaderrequired

The authentication token should be a pair of colon-joined username and password, like username:password.

Example Value: Bearer {{TOKEN}}
Request Bodyapplication/json
dbNamestring

The name of the database that to which the collection belongs . Setting this to a non-existing database results in an error.

collectionNamestringrequired

The name of the target collection. Setting this to a non-existing collection results in an error.

export TOKEN="root:Milvus"


curl --request POST \
--url "${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v2/vectordb/collections/drop" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "collectionName": "my_collection"
}'
Responses200 - application/json
codeinteger

Response code.

dataobject

Response payload which is an empty object.

Returns an error message.

codeinteger

Response code.

messagestring

Error message.

{
    "code": 0,
    "data": {}
}