Request

All the documents indexed in a collection can be deleted by means of a collection deletion request. Such a request does not remove the collection itself, only the data in it is deleted. The collection’s configuration is preserved in this process.

Collection deletion requests are formed by means of a ses-purgeCollection element contained in a ses-request element in accordance with the following example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE ses-payload SYSTEM "http://www.example.com/ses.dtd">
<ses-payload payload-id="B42TE241" timestamp="20100825172100" ses.version="2.0">
  <ses-header>
    <ses-sender sender-id="FX45RTDT" name="CM-Server"/>
    <ses-authentication login="cm-server" password=""/>
  </ses-header>
  <ses-request request-id="BR12TI5X">
    <ses-purgeCollection>collection1</ses-purgeCollection>
  </ses-request>
</ses-payload>

The ses-purgeCollection element does not have any attributes.