Hi Willi,
It worked but with small correction, listToDelete should be given under
"bindVars" keys. Refer the example below.
{"query":"FOR item IN test FILTER item._key IN @listToDelete REMOVE item IN
test","bindVars":{"listToDelete":["840"]}}
Thank you so much for your help :)
On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 5:18:10 PM UTC+5:30, Wilfried Gösgens wrote:
>
> Hi Mahi,
> you can easily delete a bunch of items from a collections using AQL like
> this: (like you would execute it in arangosh, which in term will use the
> REST api)
>
> db._query("FOR item IN test FILTER item._key IN @listToDelete REMOVE item
> IN test", {listToDelete: ['key1', 'key2']})
>
> as I did with the '_key' attribute you have to specify an attribute to
> match for agains the array in the bind values.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Willi
>
> On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 1:11:10 PM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking for an API to perform a bulk delete in ArangoDB. How could i
>> do it?
>>
>> I have gone through the below link... but i felt it is too tedious.
>> https://docs.arangodb.com/HttpBatchRequest/index.html
>>
>> Actually i'm looking for some thing simpler way like bulk import syntax
>> (pasted below for your reference)
>>
>> curl --data-binary @- -X POST --dump -
>> "http://localhost:8529/_api/import?collection=test&createCollection=true";
>> [ "firstName", "lastName", "age", "gender" ]
>> [ "Joe", "Public", 42, "male" ]
>> [ "Jane", "Doe", 31, "female" ]
>>
>> Please help me in this regard.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> - Mahi
>>
>
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