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Drop Collection

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

POST
/v1/vector/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.

collectionNamestringrequired

The name of the collection to delete.

export TOKEN="root:Milvus"


curl --request POST \
--url "${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v1/vector/collections/drop" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "collectionName": "medium_articles"
}'
Responses200 - application/json
codeinteger

Response code.

dataobject

Returns an empty object.

Returns an error message.

codeinteger

Response code.

messagestring

Error message.

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