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Use DeleteCollection with an AWS SDK or CLI - AWS SDK Code Examples

There are more AWS SDK examples available in the AWS Doc SDK Examples GitHub repo.

There are more AWS SDK examples available in the AWS Doc SDK Examples GitHub repo.

Use DeleteCollection with an AWS SDK or CLI

The following code examples show how to use DeleteCollection.

For more information, see Deleting a collection.

.NET
AWS SDK for .NET
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the AWS Code Examples Repository.

using System; using System.Threading.Tasks; using Amazon.Rekognition; using Amazon.Rekognition.Model; /// <summary> /// Uses the Amazon Rekognition Service to delete an existing collection. /// </summary> public class DeleteCollection { public static async Task Main() { var rekognitionClient = new AmazonRekognitionClient(); string collectionId = "MyCollection"; Console.WriteLine("Deleting collection: " + collectionId); var deleteCollectionRequest = new DeleteCollectionRequest() { CollectionId = collectionId, }; var deleteCollectionResponse = await rekognitionClient.DeleteCollectionAsync(deleteCollectionRequest); Console.WriteLine($"{collectionId}: {deleteCollectionResponse.StatusCode}"); } }
CLI
AWS CLI

To delete a collection

The following delete-collection command deletes the specified collection.

aws rekognition delete-collection \ --collection-id MyCollection

Output:

{ "StatusCode": 200 }

For more information, see Deleting a Collection in the Amazon Rekognition Developer Guide.

Java
SDK for Java 2.x
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the AWS Code Examples Repository.

import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region; import software.amazon.awssdk.services.rekognition.RekognitionClient; import software.amazon.awssdk.services.rekognition.model.DeleteCollectionRequest; import software.amazon.awssdk.services.rekognition.model.DeleteCollectionResponse; import software.amazon.awssdk.services.rekognition.model.RekognitionException; /** * Before running this Java V2 code example, set up your development * environment, including your credentials. * * For more information, see the following documentation topic: * * https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-java/latest/developer-guide/get-started.html */ public class DeleteCollection { public static void main(String[] args) { final String usage = """ Usage: <collectionId>\s Where: collectionId - The id of the collection to delete.\s """; if (args.length != 1) { System.out.println(usage); System.exit(1); } String collectionId = args[0]; Region region = Region.US_EAST_1; RekognitionClient rekClient = RekognitionClient.builder() .region(region) .build(); System.out.println("Deleting collection: " + collectionId); deleteMyCollection(rekClient, collectionId); rekClient.close(); } public static void deleteMyCollection(RekognitionClient rekClient, String collectionId) { try { DeleteCollectionRequest deleteCollectionRequest = DeleteCollectionRequest.builder() .collectionId(collectionId) .build(); DeleteCollectionResponse deleteCollectionResponse = rekClient.deleteCollection(deleteCollectionRequest); System.out.println(collectionId + ": " + deleteCollectionResponse.statusCode().toString()); } catch (RekognitionException e) { System.out.println(e.getMessage()); System.exit(1); } } }
Kotlin
SDK for Kotlin
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the AWS Code Examples Repository.

suspend fun deleteMyCollection(collectionIdVal: String) { val request = DeleteCollectionRequest { collectionId = collectionIdVal } RekognitionClient { region = "us-east-1" }.use { rekClient -> val response = rekClient.deleteCollection(request) println("The collectionId status is ${response.statusCode}") } }
Python
SDK for Python (Boto3)
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the AWS Code Examples Repository.

class RekognitionCollection: """ Encapsulates an Amazon Rekognition collection. This class is a thin wrapper around parts of the Boto3 Amazon Rekognition API. """ def __init__(self, collection, rekognition_client): """ Initializes a collection object. :param collection: Collection data in the format returned by a call to create_collection. :param rekognition_client: A Boto3 Rekognition client. """ self.collection_id = collection["CollectionId"] self.collection_arn, self.face_count, self.created = self._unpack_collection( collection ) self.rekognition_client = rekognition_client @staticmethod def _unpack_collection(collection): """ Unpacks optional parts of a collection that can be returned by describe_collection. :param collection: The collection data. :return: A tuple of the data in the collection. """ return ( collection.get("CollectionArn"), collection.get("FaceCount", 0), collection.get("CreationTimestamp"), ) def delete_collection(self): """ Deletes the collection. """ try: self.rekognition_client.delete_collection(CollectionId=self.collection_id) logger.info("Deleted collection %s.", self.collection_id) self.collection_id = None except ClientError: logger.exception("Couldn't delete collection %s.", self.collection_id) raise
  • For API details, see DeleteCollection in AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) API Reference.

AWS SDK for .NET
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the AWS Code Examples Repository.

using System; using System.Threading.Tasks; using Amazon.Rekognition; using Amazon.Rekognition.Model; /// <summary> /// Uses the Amazon Rekognition Service to delete an existing collection. /// </summary> public class DeleteCollection { public static async Task Main() { var rekognitionClient = new AmazonRekognitionClient(); string collectionId = "MyCollection"; Console.WriteLine("Deleting collection: " + collectionId); var deleteCollectionRequest = new DeleteCollectionRequest() { CollectionId = collectionId, }; var deleteCollectionResponse = await rekognitionClient.DeleteCollectionAsync(deleteCollectionRequest); Console.WriteLine($"{collectionId}: {deleteCollectionResponse.StatusCode}"); } }
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