CollectionRemove Class Reference

Operation to delete documents on a Collection. More...

Methods
CollectionRemove	remove (String searchCondition)
	Sets the search condition to filter the documents to be deleted from the owner Collection. More...
CollectionRemove	sort (List sortCriteria)
	Sets the order in which the deletion should be done. More...
CollectionRemove	limit (Integer numberOfRows)
	Sets a limit for the documents to be deleted. More...
CollectionRemove	bind (String name, Value value)
	Binds a value to a specific placeholder used on this CollectionRemove object. More...
Result	execute ()
	Executes the document deletion with the configured filter and limit. More...

Detailed Description

Operation to delete documents on a Collection.

A CollectionRemove object represents an operation to remove documents on a Collection, it is created through the remove function on the Collection class.

See also

Collection

Member Function Documentation

remove()

CollectionRemove remove

(

String

searchCondition

)

Sets the search condition to filter the documents to be deleted from the owner Collection.

Parameters

searchCondition

An expression to filter the documents to be deleted.

Returns

This CollectionRemove object.

Creates a handler for the deletion of documents on the collection.

A condition must be provided to this function, all the documents matching the condition will be removed from the collection.

To delete all the documents, set a condition that always evaluates to true, for example '1'.

The searchCondition supports parameter binding.

This function is called automatically when Collection.remove(searchCondition) is called.

The actual deletion of the documents will occur only when the execute() method is called.

Method Chaining

After this function invocation, the following functions can be invoked:

• sort(List sortCriteria), sort(String sortCriterion[, String sortCriterion, ...])
• limit(Integer numberOfRows)
• bind(String name, Value value)
• execute()

See also

Usage examples at execute().

sort()

CollectionRemove sort

(

List

sortCriteria

)

Sets the order in which the deletion should be done.

Returns

This CollectionRemove object.

Every defined sort criterion follows the format:

name [ ASC | DESC ]

ASC is used by default if the sort order is not specified.

This method is usually used in combination with limit to fix the amount of documents to be deleted.

Method Chaining

This function can be invoked only once after:

• remove(String searchCondition) After this function invocation, the following functions can be invoked:
• limit(Integer numberOfRows)
• bind(String name, Value value)
• execute()

See also

Usage examples at execute().

limit()

CollectionRemove limit

(

Integer

numberOfDocs

)

Sets a limit for the documents to be deleted.

Parameters

numberOfDocs

the number of documents to affect in the remove execution.

Returns

This CollectionRemove object.

This method is usually used in combination with sort to fix the amount of documents to be deleted.

Method Chaining

This function can be invoked only once after:

• remove(String searchCondition)
• sort(List sortCriteria), sort(String sortCriterion[, String sortCriterion, ...]) This function can be called every time the statement is executed.

After this function invocation, the following functions can be invoked:

• bind(String name, Value value)
• execute()

See also

Usage examples at execute().

bind()

CollectionRemove bind	(	String	name,
		Value	value
	)

Binds a value to a specific placeholder used on this CollectionRemove object.

Parameters

name	The name of the placeholder to which the value will be bound.
value	The value to be bound on the placeholder.

Returns

This CollectionRemove object.

Binds the given value to the placeholder with the specified name.

An error will be raised if the placeholder indicated by name does not exist.

This function must be called once for each used placeholder or an error will be raised when the execute() method is called.

Method Chaining

This function can be invoked multiple times right before calling execute().

After this function invocation, the following functions can be invoked:

• bind(String name, Value value)
• execute()

See also

Usage examples at execute().

execute()

Result execute

(

)

Executes the document deletion with the configured filter and limit.

Returns

Result A Result object that can be used to retrieve the results of the deletion operation.

Method Chaining

This function can be invoked after any other function on this class.

Examples

Remove under condition

var result = collection.remove('age = 15').execute();
print('Affected Rows:', result.affectedItemsCount, '\n');
 
var docs = collection.find().execute().fetchAll();
print('Records Left:', docs.length, '\n');

Remove with binding

var result = collection.remove('gender = :heorshe').limit(2).bind('heorshe', 'male').execute();
print('Affected Rows:', result.affectedItemsCount, '\n');
 
var docs = collection.find().execute().fetchAll();
print('Records Left:', docs.length, '\n');

Full remove

var result = collection.remove('1').execute();
print('Affected Rows:', result.affectedItemsCount, '\n');
 
var docs = collection.find().execute().fetchAll();
print('Records Left:', docs.length, '\n');