Drop Collection

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

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POST

https://${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v1/vector/collections/drop

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Example

📘Notes

You can use either of the following ways to authorize:

• An API Key with appropriate permissions.
• A colon-joined username and password of the target cluster. For example, username:passowrd.

export CLUSTER_ENDPOINT="https://inxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.api.gcp-us-west1.zillizcloud.com:19530"
export TOKEN="db_admin:xxxxxxxxxxx"

curl --location --request POST "http://${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v1/vector/collections/drop" \

--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" 

Possible response is similar to the following.

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

Request

Parameters

• No query parameters required

• No path parameters required

• No header parameters required

Request Body

{
    "collectionName": "string"
}

Parameter	Description
collectionName	string The name of the collection to delete.

Response

Returns an empty object.

Response Body

{
    "code": "integer",
    "data": {}
}

Property	Description
code	integer Indicates whether the request succeeds. 0: The request succeeds. Others: Some error occurs.
data	object

Error Response

{
    "code": integer,
    "message": string
}

Property	Description
code	integer Indicates whether the request succeeds. 0: The request succeeds. Others: Some error occurs.
message	string Indicates the possible reason for the reported error.