Note
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URL: http://<db.host>:<db.port>/delete/files
Deletes one or more files from KiFS.
Input Parameter Description
| Name | Type | Description | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| file_names | array of strings | An array of names of files to be deleted. File paths may contain wildcard characters after the KiFS directory delimeter. Accepted wildcard characters are asterisk (*) to represent any string of zero or more characters, and question mark (?) to indicate a single character. | ||||
| options | map of string to strings | Optional parameters. The default value is an empty map ( {} ).
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Output Parameter Description
The GPUdb server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query. Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:
| Name | Type | Description | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| status | String | 'OK' or 'ERROR' | |||||||||
| message | String | Empty if success or an error message | |||||||||
| data_type | String | 'delete_files_response' or 'none' in case of an error | |||||||||
| data | String | Empty string | |||||||||
| data_str | JSON or String | This embedded JSON represents the result of the /delete/files endpoint:
Empty string in case of an error. |
