Method: projects.databases.bulkDeleteDocuments

Bulk deletes a subset of documents from Google Cloud Firestore. Documents created or updated after the underlying system starts to process the request will not be deleted. The bulk delete occurs in the background and its progress can be monitored and managed via the Operation resource that is created.

For more details on bulk delete behavior, refer to: https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs/manage-data/bulk-delete

HTTP request

POST https://firestore.googleapis.com/v1/{name=projects/*/databases/*}:bulkDeleteDocuments

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
name

string

Required. Database to operate. Should be of the form: projects/{projectId}/databases/{databaseId}.

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation
{
  "collectionIds": [
    string
  ],
  "namespaceIds": [
    string
  ]
}
Fields
collectionIds[]

string

Optional. IDs of the collection groups to delete. Unspecified means all collection groups.

Each collection group in this list must be unique.

namespaceIds[]

string

Optional. Namespaces to delete.

An empty list means all namespaces. This is the recommended usage for databases that don't use namespaces.

An empty string element represents the default namespace. This should be used if the database has data in non-default namespaces, but doesn't want to delete from them.

Each namespace in this list must be unique.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an instance of Operation.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/datastore
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the OAuth 2.0 Overview.