Hive box(xyz).delete(keyhere) not working

[UmairSaqibBhutta]

I am using hive for data persistence and now I want to delete data at a particular key of a box. But delete method is not working, My code is : final box = Hive.box("boxName"); box.delete(keyName); but its not working.

[friedScotch]

delete() is an async function. Did you try awaiting it?

[LiveRock]

Was it resolved? Facing same issue even with await https://github.com/hivedb/hive/issues/1197

[UmairSaqibBhutta]

@friedScotch @LiveRock delete() is not async but I also tried. It not worked. Then I tried another way that may be not professional but it works. I am storing a list of strings and to delete any particular key I am saving an empty list against the key. box.put("keyName", <String>[]); we can also use it as: box.put("keyName", null); It all depends upon the scenario. box.put will replace the previous data with a new one.

[LiveRock]

Will Hive store/save with duplicate keys? Like will it create multiple records or just overwrite the record of the same key?

[UmairSaqibBhutta]

It will replace/ Overwrite the previous record with the new one.

[friedScotch]

The official doc does not use async, however if you look inside box_base.dart, delete() is an async function

[darielkurt]

@LiveRock @UmairSaqibBhutta No, it does not overwrite the value, it only appends. See this link