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Deletes the current index and all its associated data from the CyborgDB service. 
async deleteIndex(): Promise<object>

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Exceptions

  • Throws if the API request fails due to network connectivity issues.
  • Throws if authentication fails (invalid API key).
  • Throws if there are internal server errors preventing the deletion.
  • Returns success status if the index was already deleted or doesn’t exist.
  • Throws if the encryption key is invalid for the specified index (unless already deleted).

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Example Usage

import { Client } from 'cyborgdb';

const client = new Client({ baseUrl: 'http://localhost:8000', apiKey: 'your-api-key' });

// Load an existing index
const indexKey = new Uint8Array(Buffer.from('your-stored-hex-key', 'hex'));
const index = await client.loadIndex({ indexName: 'temporary-index', indexKey });

// Delete the index when no longer needed
try {
    const result = await index.deleteIndex();
    console.log('Index deletion result:', result);
    // Possible outputs:
    // { status: 'success', message: "Index 'temporary-index' deleted successfully" }
    // { status: 'success', message: "Index 'temporary-index' was already deleted" }
    
} catch (error) {
    console.error('Failed to delete index:', error.message);
}