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Deletes one or more files from KiFS.

Input Parameter Description

array of strings
An array of names of files to be deleted. File paths may contain wildcard characters after the KiFS directory delimiter.Accepted wildcard characters are asterisk (*) to represent any string of zero or more characters, and question mark (?) to indicate a single character.
map of string to strings
Optional parameters.The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Output Parameter Description

The Kinetica 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:
String
‘OK’ or ‘ERROR’
String
Empty if success or an error message
String
‘delete_files_response’ or ‘none’ in case of an error
String
Empty string
JSON or String
This embedded JSON represents the result of the /delete/files endpoint:Empty string in case of an error.