The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

Deleting a document in CouchDB using Node.js and Cradle

To remove a record, you use the Cradle module's remove method and pass the ID of the document you want to remove.

How to do it...

Here's an example of remove:

db.remove(id);

Passing an ID removes the document with the given ID.

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If you have more than one document to remove, you could iterate across all documents, the way the following code does, removing each document in turn:

db.all(function(err, doc) {
  for(var i = 0; i < doc.length; i++) {
    db.remove(doc[i].id, doc[i].value.rev, function(err, doc) {
      console.log('Removing ' + doc._id);
    });
  }
});

This is a more complex use of remove; it takes the document's ID, the revision of the document, and a callback function, which logs to the