2E. Deleting Documents

If you've been following along through each step, it's time to clean up our test documents. The delete() function allows a boolean argument of "truncate" which defaults to FALSE. If you set this argument to true, without a loaded record or existing criteria, it will delete all documents from the collection. In this case, we're just going to delete our records one at a time, using our cursor:

var people = this.reset().findAll(true);

while(people.hasNext()){
	var peep=people.next();
	//notice how we're using bracket notation for our _id value. This is necessary because calling peep._id on the cursor object will throw an error  
	this.get(peep['_id']).delete();
}
	

Optionally, you could delete all records matching a given criteria using a where() clause:

var noDoes = this.reset().where('last_name','Doe').delete();