Nitrite/Java: Delete a collection without loading collection?

[timmolter]

Hello, is there a way to delete a collection without first needing to load the collection? I need a way to delete a corrupt collection from the DB that causes an exception during loading of the collection. But from the API docs, I see that you need to call collection.drop(). But the problem is that I cannot first get the collection, because of corruption of the collection itself which leads to an exception when calling db.getCollection().

[anidotnet]

Currently in 3.x there is no such functionality. You can do it via reflection by getting hold of mvStore instance from NitriteMVStore. Once you get the mvStore instance, you can do the following to remove it without loading the collection.

MVMap<?, ?> mvMap = mvStore.openMap(collectionName);
mvStore.removeMap(mvMap);

Having said that, in 4.x I am trying to add a new api which can do that from nitrite.

[anidotnet]

Feature is added in 4.0.1-SNAPSHOT