Delete all rows in collection

[flessard]

Where is the delete all rows for a collection?

• You're running version >=2.1.4 of Parse Server.
• You've searched through existing issues. Chances are that your issue has been reported or resolved before.

[drew-gross]

dashboard.parse.com deletes all rows through a special endpoint on parse.com/apps, rather than api.parse.com. we decided that giving clients the ability to delete all object in a class was too likely to be abused, so we never implemented it. Parse Dashboard, though, only has methods in the JS sdk and methods on Parse Server available to it. Adding support for deleting all objects in a class would require a little bit of support on Parse Server, and a little bit of support from Parse Dashboard. It would be a good first PR for someone who wants to contribute to Parse.

[DazChong]

+1 I use mongo to drop collection.

[AmbroiseCollon]

+1 would be useful for testing

[miracle7]

+1

[hl4hck]

+1

[pie6k]

+1

[JustinDMoore]

+1

[pie6k]

Maybe at least some "Select all on screen" option on data browser?

Some websites have also such option that if I press mouse button on some checkbox and then (without releasing it) I move mouse to other checkboxes, they get selected too. That would save me a lot of clicking.

[samschooler]

Can someone explain why this checkbox in the header of collections is disabled?

I assume it would be for performance reasons? But If you inspect element, and enable it, it works and selects every element in the collection. It doesn't actually delete everything because it is probably a special case in code, but I could fix that to work as if every row was selected manually.

We could also just limited it to remove only 50 rows at a time to prevent overloading the server. Would this work?

[drew-gross]

We disabled it because it was confusing some people, and a few people accidentally deleted their entire collection. We were eventually going to change it so it selected only the visible rows, but we never got around to that.