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<h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="dpl_delete"></a>Deleting Entity Objects</h2>
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<p>
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The simplest way to remove an object from your entity store
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is to delete it by its primary index. For example,
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using the <tt class="classname">SimpleDA</tt> class that we
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created earlier in this document
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(see <a href="simpleda.html">SimpleDA.class</a>),
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you can delete the <tt class="classname">SimpleEntityClass</tt>
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object with a primary key of <tt class="literal">keyone</tt> as
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follows:
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<pre class="programlisting">sda.pIdx.delete("keyone");</pre>
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<p>
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You can also delete objects by their secondary keys. When
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you do this, all objects related to the secondary key are
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deleted, unless the key is a foreign object.
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</p>
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<p>
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For example, the following deletes all
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<tt class="classname">SimpleEntityClass</tt> with a secondary
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key of <tt class="literal">skeyone</tt>:
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</p>
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<pre class="programlisting">sda.sIdx.delete("skeyone");</pre>
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<p>
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Finally, if you are indexing by foreign key, then the
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results of deleting the key is determined by the foreign
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key constraint that you have set for the index. See
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<a href="dplindexcreate.html#foreignkey">Foreign Key Constraints</a>
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for more information.
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