Delete a Document
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You can delete a document in a collection by using the DeleteOne()
method.
Example
Tip
Read the Usage Examples to learn how to run this example.
The following example matches documents in the movies collection
in which the title is "Twilight", deleting the first document
matched:
coll := client.Database("sample_mflix").Collection("movies") filter := bson.D{{"title", "Twilight"}} result, err := coll.DeleteOne(context.TODO(), filter) if err != nil { panic(err) }
View a fully runnable example.
Expected Result
After you run the full example, it removes the following document
in the movies collection:
// result truncated { "_id": ObjectId("573a13bff29313caabd5e06b"), ..., "title": "Twilight", ... }
For an example on how to find a document, see Find a Document.
Additional Information
To learn more about deleting documents, see Delete Documents.