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Delete Documents

Documents can be deleted from a search index either using id field or a filter that matches any number of documents.

Get Search Index instance​

const client = new Tigris();
const search = client.getSearch();
const catalog = await search.getIndex<Catalog>("catalog");

Delete a single document using id​

Use deleteOne to delete an existing document using id. It returns a DocStatus object that has error in case deletion fails, error would be undefined if deletion succeeds.

const result = await catalog.deleteOne("407124e3-f4a9-4d72-b777-580d8f8de654");

console.log(result);
Output
{
  "id": "407124e3-f4a9-4d72-b777-580d8f8de654"
}

Delete multiple documents using id​

Similar to deleteOne, deleteMany() can be used to delete multiple documents using id.

const result = await catalog.deleteMany([
  "002eeee4-4249-469d-9425-100fc0e60a68",
  "5659ff93-83fc-4355-8564-ac8efb47f4ef",
  "unknown-id",
]);

console.log(result);
Output
[
  {
    "id": "002eeee4-4249-469d-9425-100fc0e60a68"
  },
  {
    "id": "5659ff93-83fc-4355-8564-ac8efb47f4ef"
  }
  {
    "id": "unknown-id",
    "error": {
      "errMsg": "TigrisError: Could not find a document with id: unknown-id"
    }
  }
]

Delete multiple documents matching a filter​

Alternatively, you can use the filters as used in search() to select a subset of documents for deletion. This deleteByQuery() method returns a number of deleted documents.

Example: delete documents by filtering for documents matching a brand​

const deleteCount = await catalog.deleteByQuery({ brand: "coach" });

Example: delete documents matching a more complex filtering condition​

const deleteCount = await catalog.deleteByQuery({
  op: LogicalOperator.AND,
  selectorFilters: [
    {
      op: SelectorFilterOperator.GTE,
      fields: { price: 35 },
    },
    {
      op: SelectorFilterOperator.LT,
      fields: { price: 90 },
    },
  ],
});