[erlang-questions] Why is this delete_object giving me an error?

[Jeroen Koops]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:18 PM, ryeguy <ryeguy1@REDACTED> wrote:

> Oh, so is there no way to directly delete an object using a secondary
> index? ID would be my primary index, so I would have to either :
> A) Get the ID and delete by that with delete() or
> B) Get the whole record and delete by that with delete_object()?
>
> Do I understand this correctly?


You do - and typically, you would use delete_object only if your table is of
type bag - otherwise, you'd always use delete.


>
> On Mar 16, 9:21 am, Jeroen Koops <koop...@REDACTED> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > dirty_delete_object (and also delete_object) can only be used with a
> > complete record - i.e. all fields must be filled in. It does not accept
> > wildcard patterns.
> >
> > If you want to delete all user with a certain first name, you need an
> index
> > on the first_name attribute, query for all users with that first name
> using
> > mnesia:index_read or dirty_index_read, and finally manually delete all
> > returned records with delete_object or delete.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jeroen
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:05 PM, ryeguy <ryeg...@REDACTED> wrote:
> > > I don't see what's wrong here, but I may just misunderstand the
> > > syntax. I'm trying to delete a "user" record from my "user" mnesia
> > > table who have the first name of "ryan" (there are multiples of them).
> > > Here is what I do:
> >
> > > Delete=#user{first_name = "ryan", _ = '_'},
> > > mnesia:dirty_delete_object(Delete)
> >
> > > Here is my record definition:
> > > -record(user, {id,
> > >                           username,
> > >                           password,
> > >                           email,
> > >                           first_name,
> > >                           last_name,
> > >                           last_login, % Date/time user last logged in
> > >                           reg_date}). % Date/time user registered the
> > > account
> >
> > > And here is the exception I'm getting:
> > > ** exception exit: {aborted,
> > >                       {bad_type,user,
> > >                           {user,'_','_','_','_',"ryan",'_','_','_'}}}
> > >     in function  mnesia:abort/1
> > >     in call from users:register/1
> >
> > > It seems like a perfect match. What could cause this problem?
> >
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