Delete Documents through a query

Mobile Couchbase Lite
1

Hi, does Couchbase Lite 2.0.2 for Android have support for deleting documents directly through query?

For example, with SQLite, I can call something like this to delete all users:

SQLiteDatabase database = getWritableDatabase();

database.execSQL("DELETE FROM user");

If I understand the QueryBuilder correctly, the way to achieve this same behavior with Couchbase Lite is to do the following:

database.inBatch(new Runnable()
{
    @Override public void run()
    {
        try
        {
            Query query = QueryBuilder.select(SelectResult.expression(Meta.id)).from(DataSource.database(database)).where(Expression.property("type").equalTo(Expression.string("user")));

            ResultSet resultSet = query.execute();

            for(Result result : resultSet)
            {
                String id = result.getString(0);

                Document document = database.getDocument(id);

                if(document != null)
                {
                    database.delete(document);
                }
            }
        }
        catch(Exception exception)
        {
            Log.e(exception);
        }
    }
});

Can you confirm if this is the case?

Thanks in advance!

2

That is correct. Couchbase Lite queries are read only, so they cannot perform deletions.