I have an array of docs ids that I want to delete in using a cloud function, my code looks like the following :
//If the user decieds on deleting his account forever we need to make sure we wont have any thing left inside of db after this !!
// incoming payload array of 3 docs
data = {array : ['a302-5e9c8ae97b3b','92c8d309-090d','a302-5e932c8ae97b3b']}
export const deleteClients = functions.https.onCall(async (data, context) => {
try {
// declare batch
const batch = db.batch();
// set
data.arr.forEach((doc: string) => {
batch.delete(db.collection('Data'), doc);
});
// commit
await batch.commit();
} catch (e) {
console.log(e);
}
return null;
});Delete takes a single param, the doc ref of the doc to be deleted.
data.arr.forEach((docId: string) => {
batch.delete(doc(db, "Data", docId));
});
There are several errors in your code:
data.arr.forEach() cannot work wince your data object contains one element with the key array and not the key arr.return null; AFTER the try/catch block: this means that, in most of the cases, your Cloud Function will be terminated before asynchronous work is complete (see the link above)So the following should do the trick (untested):
const db = admin.firestore();
const data = {array : ['a302-5e9c8ae97b3b','92c8d309-090d','a302-5e932c8ae97b3b']};
export const deleteClients = functions.https.onCall(async (data, context) => {
try {
const batch = db.batch();
const parentCollection = db.collection('Data')
data.array.forEach((docId) => {
batch.delete(parentCollection.doc(docId));
});
// commit
await batch.commit();
return {result: 'success'} // IMPORTANT, see explanations above
} catch (e) {
console.log(e);
// IMPORTANT See https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/callable#handle_errors
}
});