Requests deletion of unreachable search (Clouseau) indexes of the specified database. The signatures for all current design documents is retrieved and any index found on disk with a signature that is not in that list is deleted.

Parameters:

• db – Database name

Request Headers:

• Accept –

  • application/json

  • text/plain

• Content-Type – application/json

Response Headers:

• Content-Type –

  • application/json

  • text/plain; charset=utf-8

Response JSON Object:

• ok (boolean) – Operation status

Status Codes:

• 202 Accepted – Cleanup request has been accepted

• 400 Bad Request – Invalid database name

• 401 Unauthorized – CouchDB Server Administrator privileges required

• 403 Forbidden – Insufficient permissions / Too many requests with invalid credentials

Request:

POST /db/_search_cleanup HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Host: localhost:5984

Response:

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Content-Length: 12
Content-Type: application/json
Server: CouchDB (Erlang/OTP)

{
    "ok": true
}

Requests deletion of unreachable search (Nouveau) indexes of the specified database. The signatures for all current design documents is retrieved and any index found on disk with a signature that is not in that list is deleted.

Parameters:

• db – Database name

Request Headers:

• Accept –

  • application/json

  • text/plain

• Content-Type – application/json

Response Headers:

• Content-Type –

  • application/json

  • text/plain; charset=utf-8

Response JSON Object:

• ok (boolean) – Operation status

Status Codes:

• 202 Accepted – Cleanup request has been accepted

• 400 Bad Request – Invalid database name

• 401 Unauthorized – CouchDB Server Administrator privileges required

• 403 Forbidden – Insufficient permissions / Too many requests with invalid credentials

Request:

POST /db/_nouveau_cleanup HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Host: localhost:5984

Response:

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Content-Length: 12
Content-Type: application/json
Server: CouchDB (Erlang/OTP)

{
    "ok": true
}