Fully delete / wipe remote DWN

[bnonni]

It would be nice, especially for development puposes, to have an easy way to wipe the data store of a remote dwn. @csuwildcat said "We need a command like that, but don't have it." Consider this issue as the starting point for discussion on how to achieve this behavior. My initial idea is something simple: Create a function that proxies the functionality of web5.dwn.records.query and runs record.delete on each returned record. Same goes for web5.dwn.protocols.query but instead of .delete do a web5.dwn.protocols.configure({}); this could be exposed in @web5/api as web5.dwn.wipe. Open to other ideas.

[andorsk]

should you be able to partial wipe based on a subset of permissions or should wiping be bound only to tenant based activities?

i.e I Alice authored 1000 messages to Bob's remote node and has write permission. Can Alice purge records from Bob via wipe or is wipe bound to only tenant?

also, a thought to call it purge or prune. Not wipe.

[csuwildcat]

@andorsk we are using the word 'prune' already for deep deletes

[alanhkarp]

Fully deleting and wiping a remote data store are not necessarily the same thing. Wiping removes all content but may leave other metadata, such as the data store identity. That can be a problem when a test shouldn't know a new data store's identity. Fully deleting and starting a new data store avoids this hazard. (I'm particularly sensitive to this effect because it caused me a lot of pain debugging some tests.)