Re: [Exist-open] Not able to remove a collection

[Juri L. <ju...@ex...>]

Hello Seena Sanil!

It would help a lot to know the version of the eXist-db instance you are 
working with. To my knowledge a similar issue was reported and fixed 
some time ago. This information, along with operating system and java 
version is generally helpful when posting questions here.

However, theses are additional methods to remove a collection in an 
eXist-db instance that come to my mind:

- evaluating an XQuery calling xmldb:remove in eXide or other means
https://exist-db.org/exist/apps/fundocs/index.html?q=xmldb%3Aremove&action=search&type=name

- using the XML-RPC API eXist-db offers which has a remove collection 
endpoint
   one available command line client is xst 
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@existdb/xst

- the java admin client should also offer a similar functionality

If none of the above work you could

- save all other resources and subcollections next to the one you cannot 
remove

- then remove the parent collection (regsum-ref in your case)


Hope this helps,

Juri Leino


On 16.05.25 15:23, Sanil, Seena via Exist-open wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When we try to remove a collection either through the UI or through 
> calling the rest API we get this error. Is there any other way to 
> remove the collection?
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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