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:
// Deletes a document from a collection by using the Go driver package main import ( "context" "fmt" "log" "os" "github.com/joho/godotenv" "go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/v2/bson" "go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/v2/mongo" "go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/v2/mongo/options" ) // Defines a Restaurant struct as a model for documents in the "restaurants" collection type Restaurant struct { ID bson.ObjectID `bson:"_id"` Name string `bson:"name"` Cuisine string `bson:"cuisine,omitempty"` Address interface{} `bson:"address,omitempty"` Borough string `bson:"borough,omitempty"` Grades []interface{} `bson:"grades,omitempty"` } func main() { if err := godotenv.Load(); err != nil { log.Println("No .env file found") } var uri string if uri = os.Getenv("MONGODB_URI"); uri == "" { log.Fatal("You must set your 'MONGODB_URI' environment variable. See\n\t https://www.mongodb.com/docs/drivers/go/current/connect/mongoclient/#environment-variable") } client, err := mongo.Connect(options.Client().ApplyURI(uri)) if err != nil { panic(err) } defer func() { if err = client.Disconnect(context.TODO()); err != nil { panic(err) } }() coll := client.Database("sample_restaurants").Collection("restaurants") filter := bson.D{{"name", "New Corner"}} // Deletes the first document that has a "name" value of "New Corner" result, err := coll.DeleteOne(context.TODO(), filter) // Prints a message if any errors occur during the operation if err != nil { panic(err) } // Prints the number of deleted documents fmt.Printf("Documents deleted: %d\n", result.DeletedCount) // When you run this file for the first time, it prints output similar to the following: // Documents deleted: 1 }
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("..."), ..., "title": "Twilight", ... }
For an example on how to find a document, see Find Documents.
Additional Information
To learn more about deleting documents, see Delete Documents.