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Delete

This operation deletes entities by their IDs or with a boolean expression.

POST
/v2/vectordb/entities/delete
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 target database.

collectionNamestringrequired

The name of an existing collection.

filterstringrequired

A scalar filtering condition to filter matching entities. You can set this parameter to an empty string to skip scalar filtering. To build a scalar filtering condition, refer to Boolean Expression Rules.

partitionNamestring

The name of a partition in the current collection. If specified, the data is to be deleted from the specified partition.

export TOKEN="root:Milvus"


curl --request POST \
--url "${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v2/vectordb/entities/delete" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "collectionName": "medium_articles",
    "filter": "id == 4321034832910"
}'
export TOKEN="root:Milvus"


curl --request POST \
--url "${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v2/vectordb/entities/delete" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "collectionName": "medium_articles",
    "filter": "reading_time > 15"
}'
Responses200 - application/json
codeinteger

Response code.

costinteger

Cost of this operation.

dataobject

Response payload which is an empty object.

Returns an error message.

codeinteger

Response code.

messagestring

Error message.

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