7.3.15. config_delete

7.3.15.1. Summary

New in version 5.1.2.

config_delete command deletes the specified configuration item.

7.3.15.2. Syntax

This command takes only one required parameter:

config_delete key

7.3.15.3. Usage

Here is an example to delete alias.column configuration item:

Execution example:

config_set alias.column Aliases.real_name
# [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], true]
config_get alias.column
# [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], "Aliases.real_name"]
config_delete alias.column
# [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], true]
config_get alias.column
# [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], ""]

Here is an example to delete nonexistent configuration item:

Execution example:

config_delete nonexistent
# [
#   [
#     -22,
#     1337566253.89858,
#     0.000355720520019531,
#     "[config][delete] failed to delete",
#     [
#       [
#         "grn_config_delete",
#         "config.c",
#         166
#       ]
#     ]
#   ],
#   false
# ]

config_delete returns an error when you try to delete nonexistent configuration item.

7.3.15.4. Parameters

This section describes all parameters.

7.3.15.4.1. Required parameters

There is only one required parameter.

7.3.15.4.1.1. key

Specifies the key of target configuration item.

The max key size is 4KiB.

You can’t use an empty string as key.

7.3.15.4.2. Optional parameters

There is no optional parameter.

7.3.15.5. Return value

config_delete command returns whether deleting a configuration item is succeeded or not:

[HEADER, SUCCEEDED_OR_NOT]

7.3.15.5.2. SUCCEEDED_OR_NOT

If command succeeded, it returns true, otherwise it returns false on error.

7.3.15.6. See also