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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:

https://${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}

📘Notes
  • You need to fill in ${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT} with that of your Zilliz Cloud cluster.
  • To get the endpoint, refer to On Zilliz Cloud Console or use the Describe Cluster API to extract the values from the responses.
export CLUSTER_ENDPOINT=""
Parameters
Authorizationstringheaderrequired

The authentication token should be an API key with appropriate privileges or a pair of colon-joined username and password, like username:password.

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

The name of the collection to delete.

export TOKEN="db_admin:xxxxxxxxxxxxx"

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": {}
}