Method: googleapis.firestore.v1.projects.databases.documents.delete

Deletes a document.

Every document in Cloud Firestore is uniquely identified by its location within the database. Documents live in collections and the names of documents within a collection are unique. Note that {document_path} refers to the fully specified document path and includes the collection ID. For more information, see Cloud Firestore data model and the Cloud Firestore connector sample.

Arguments

Parameters
name	string Required. The resource name of the Document to delete. In the format: projects/{project_id}/databases/{database_id}/documents/{document_path}.
currentDocument.exists	boolean When set to true, the target document must exist. When set to false, the target document must not exist.
currentDocument.updateTime	string (Timestamp format) When set, the target document must exist and have been last updated at that time.

Raised exceptions

Exceptions
ConnectionError	In case of a network problem (such as DNS failure or refused connection).
HttpError	If the response status is >= 400 (excluding 429 and 503).
TimeoutError	If a long-running operation takes longer to finish than the specified timeout limit.
TypeError	If an operation or function receives an argument of the wrong type.
ValueError	If an operation or function receives an argument of the right type but an inappropriate value. For example, a negative timeout.

Response

If successful, the response will be empty.

Subworkflow snippet

Some fields might be optional or required. To identify required fields, refer to the API documentation.

YAML

- delete:
    call: googleapis.firestore.v1.projects.databases.documents.delete
    args:
        name: ...
        currentDocument:
            exists: ...
            updateTime: ...
    result: deleteResult

JSON

[
  {
    "delete": {
      "call": "googleapis.firestore.v1.projects.databases.documents.delete",
      "args": {
        "name": "...",
        "currentDocument": {
          "exists": "...",
          "updateTime": "..."
        }
      },
      "result": "deleteResult"
    }
  }
]