Keys stuck in Replit DB, can't delete

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Hey, I was experimenting with using Replit DB and tried inserting some values using URLs as the keys. I quickly found out that having “/” in a key doesn’t work well in Replit. However, now I can’t seem to remove those faulty keys from my DB. Using python’s replit.db.clear() removes all keys except those with / and just silently fails on those. Trying to iterate through all keys causes a KeyError on the offending keys.

Anyone have any ideas for how I can remove those keys? I’m totally fine with nuking the whole DB and starting from scratch but I can’t find a way to do that which successfully removes all the faulty keys.

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Try and send a DELETE request to your DB url w/ the key, you can do something like this:

import requests
import urllib
import os

db_url = os.environ["REPLIT_DB_URL"]
key = ""

resp = requests.delete(f"{db_url}/{urllib.parse.quote(key)}")
print(resp.status_code)
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Having / in a key messes up the DB because it confuses the url api. But often delete gives and error but works.
Try the above or write a empty in it.

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The way the database works, values are accessed by <db url>/key. Because of this, you might need to make sure the key is encoded correctly so that this works. Try using urllib.parse(key) on each key and see if that works.

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That doesn’t seem to work, I think because the quote encoding no longer matches the faulty key in the DB

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Yeah that works now for new keys, but I still don’t have a way to remove the old erroneous keys in the DB

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You might actually need to create a new Repl because you might not actually be able to change or delete those keys once set. I’m assuming you’ve tried something like this:

for key in db:
    db[key].delete()

If that doesn’t work (and I haven’t used ReplDB with Python before, I mainly use NodeJS, so that snippet might be incorrect), you will probably need to create a new Repl.

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Damn I was hoping that wouldn’t be the case but you might be right :frowning:

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maybe try:

from replit import db

for _x in db.keys():
     del db[_x]
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basically since they send it to a server via url prefixes, some “keys” are going to be funky lol

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Just delete the DB URL and make a new one.

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