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Truncating Typesense Instance for Testing Purposes

TLDR Emma inquired about an easier way to truncate a Typesense instance for testing. Jason suggested stopping the process, deleting contents in the data-dir, and restarting, but confirmed no specific API exists for this task.

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Emma

10:40 PM

Is there an easier way to truncate a whole typesense instance between tests than iterating collections and aliases? Or any better way to isolate the tests?

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Jason

10:41 PM

If you’re running Typesense in CI, you could stop the process, delete the contents of the data-dir and restart the process

Emma

10:42 PM

Hmm, I think that would be slower and harder… I'm basically trying to find an equivalent to what we do against our postgres db for tests: create a transaction and then rollback 😅

10:43

Emma

10:43 PM

For now I've just been iterating the aliases and collections and deleting them after each test, which works, I just hoped there might be an API command to just nuke the whole db

Jason

10:44 PM

There isn’t an API like that at the moment

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