Drop collection if exists

Kevin Sheppard

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Mar 10, 2017, 4:11:58 PM3/10/17

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Is there "drop collection if exists" functionality in the ArangoDB Shell or Java driver? Would be quite handy for tests.

Jan

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Mar 13, 2017, 3:57:58 AM3/13/17

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The ArangoDB shell has a "db._drop(collectionName)" command.
It can be called for an existing or a non-existing collection. When called for an existing collection, it will drop it. When called for a non-existing collection, it won't do anything (i.e. not fail and not throw an exception).
Does that help?

mpv1989

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Mar 13, 2017, 4:29:44 AM3/13/17

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The method `ArangoCollection.drop()` throws an exception if the collection does not exists. For tests it should be enough to surround the call with `try { ... } catch(ArangoDBException e){}`

Am Freitag, 10. März 2017 22:11:58 UTC+1 schrieb Kevin Sheppard:

Kevin Sheppard

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Mar 13, 2017, 12:28:33 PM3/13/17

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I think the exception catching could work. Thanks.

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