🚀 Feature: Support the ability to perform operations on multiple documents in a single request

[dilomor]

🔖 Feature description

support the ability to perform operations on multiple documents in a single request

🎤 Pitch

In my example, I have a contact list where I can select multiple contacts to perform actions on.

I want to delete these contacts, so I would use the deleteDocument method for each contact I want to delete. :
await databases.deleteDocument('[DATABASE_ID]', '[COLLECTION_ID]', '[DOCUMENT_ID]');
However, this would require making multiple separate requests.

To limit the number of requests and improve performance, it would be useful to have a method that allows me to delete multiple documents with a single request. This method could be called deleteDocuments :
await databases.deleteDocuments('[DATABASE_ID]', '[COLLECTION_ID]', ['[DOCUMENT_ID]', ...]);

The same logic could be applied for creating and modifying documents, using methods like createDocuments and updateDocuments.

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[stnguyen90]

Thanks for opening this issue! 🙏🏼

As a workaround right now, You can use an Appwrite Function so that your client app doesn't have to initiate several requests. In your Function, make sure to batch the API calls (100 or so requests) so that they execute concurrently rather than serially (ie. don't await each databases.deleteDocument()).

Related issue: #3051.

[fanatic75]

Hi@ @stnguyen90
Can you please assign this to me?

[stnguyen90]

@fanatic75, thanks for your interest! 🙏🏼 It might be best to leave this to the core team for now, at least until we decide on the design/approach.

[ohbob]

I would love to see this feature as well, as it seems logical to have one.