Delete a search index by using PHP SDK - Tablestore - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

You can use the DeleteSearchIndex operation to delete a search index from a specified data table.

Prerequisites

An OTSClient instance is initialized. For more information, see Initialize an OTSClient instance.
A data table is created. Data is written to the table. For more information, see Create a data table and Write data.
A search index is created for the data table. For more information, see Create a search index.

API operation

/**
 * Deletes a search index.
 * @api
 *
 * @param [] $request
 *            The request parameters, which include the table name and the search index name.
 * @return [] The response to the request.
 * @throws OTSClientException Thrown if a parameter error occurs or if server-side verification fails.
 * @throws OTSServerException Thrown if the Tablestore server returns an error.
 * @example "src/examples/DeleteSearchIndex.php"
 */
public function deleteSearchIndex(array $request)

Parameters

The delete_search_index method contains the following parameters.

Name	Type	Description
table_name (required)	`str`	The table name.
index_name (required)	`str`	The search index to delete.

Example

The following example shows how to delete a search index.

$request = array(
    'table_name' => 'php_sdk_test',
    'index_name' => 'php_sdk_test_search_index'
);
$response = $otsClient->deleteSearchIndex($request);

References

If your existing search indexes do not meet your business requirements, you can create new search indexes or modify the schemas of existing search indexes to add, remove, or modify index fields. For more information, see Create a search index and Dynamically modify a schema.