IDocumentClient.DeleteDocumentCollectionAsync Method

Definition

Namespace:

Microsoft.Azure.Documents

Assemblies:

Microsoft.Azure.DocumentDB.Core.dll, Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client.dll

Packages:

Microsoft.Azure.DocumentDB v2.18.0, Microsoft.Azure.DocumentDB.Core v2.18.0

Overloads

DeleteDocumentCollectionAsync(String, RequestOptions)	Delete a DocumentCollection from the Azure Cosmos DB service as an asynchronous operation.
DeleteDocumentCollectionAsync(Uri, RequestOptions)	Delete a collection as an asynchronous operation in the Azure Cosmos DB service.

DeleteDocumentCollectionAsync(String, RequestOptions)

Delete a DocumentCollection from the Azure Cosmos DB service as an asynchronous operation.

public System.Threading.Tasks.Task<Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client.ResourceResponse<Microsoft.Azure.Documents.DocumentCollection>> DeleteDocumentCollectionAsync (string documentCollectionLink, Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client.RequestOptions options = default);

abstract member DeleteDocumentCollectionAsync : string * Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client.RequestOptions -> System.Threading.Tasks.Task<Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client.ResourceResponse<Microsoft.Azure.Documents.DocumentCollection>>

Public Function DeleteDocumentCollectionAsync (documentCollectionLink As String, Optional options As RequestOptions = Nothing) As Task(Of ResourceResponse(Of DocumentCollection))

Parameters

documentCollectionLink

String

The link of the Document to delete. E.g. dbs/db_rid/colls/col_rid/

options

RequestOptions

(Optional) The request options for the request.

Returns

Task<ResourceResponse<DocumentCollection>>

A System.Threading.Tasks containing a ResourceResponse<TResource> which will contain information about the request issued.

Exceptions

ArgumentNullException

If documentCollectionLink is not set.

DocumentClientException

This exception can encapsulate many different types of errors. To determine the specific error always look at the StatusCode property. Some common codes you may get when creating a Document are:

StatusCode	Reason for exception
404	NotFound - This means the resource you tried to delete did not exist.

Examples

//Delete a collection using its selfLink property
//To get the collectionLink you would have to query for the Collection, using CreateDocumentCollectionQuery(),  and then refer to its .SelfLink property
await client.DeleteDocumentCollectionAsync(collectionLink);

See also

• DocumentCollection
• RequestOptions
• ResourceResponse<TResource>
• Task

DeleteDocumentCollectionAsync(Uri, RequestOptions)

Delete a collection as an asynchronous operation in the Azure Cosmos DB service.

public System.Threading.Tasks.Task<Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client.ResourceResponse<Microsoft.Azure.Documents.DocumentCollection>> DeleteDocumentCollectionAsync (Uri documentCollectionUri, Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client.RequestOptions options = default);

abstract member DeleteDocumentCollectionAsync : Uri * Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client.RequestOptions -> System.Threading.Tasks.Task<Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client.ResourceResponse<Microsoft.Azure.Documents.DocumentCollection>>

Public Function DeleteDocumentCollectionAsync (documentCollectionUri As Uri, Optional options As RequestOptions = Nothing) As Task(Of ResourceResponse(Of DocumentCollection))

Parameters

documentCollectionUri

Uri

The URI of the document collection to delete.

options

RequestOptions

(Optional) The RequestOptions for the request.

Returns

Task<ResourceResponse<DocumentCollection>>

The task object representing the service response for the asynchronous operation.