How to specify NONE partition key for deleting a document in Document DB java SDK?

Per my experience, if your collection does not have a partitioning key, you do not need to set the query criteria for the partitioning key when you operate the database.

In you post, the collection does not have a partitioning key, and you set the partitioning key into RequestOption. So , the database certainly doesn't know where to find the document to operate.

You could refer to my snippet of code:

import com.microsoft.azure.documentdb.*;

public class DeleteDocuments {
    private static String accountName="https://jay.documents.azure.com:443/";

    private static String accountKey="Czi66skfjZYLTaXuDhoxNb2JHL4DR98VxAxGXtLkWFnjCa5e7gUXQuPgemlXwyPWjjWJpwrseH1wPMfhkqA8cQ==";

    private static String databaseName = "db";

    private static String collectionName = "coll";

    public static void main(String[] args) throws DocumentClientException {

        DocumentClient client = new DocumentClient(
                accountName,
                accountKey
                , new ConnectionPolicy(),
                ConsistencyLevel.Session);

        FeedOptions options = null;
        String sql = "select * from c";
        FeedResponse<Document> queryResults  = client.queryDocuments("dbs/"+databaseName+"/colls/"+collectionName, sql, options);

        System.out.println("before delete :");
        for (Document d : queryResults.getQueryIterable()) {
            System.out.println(String.format("\tRead %s", d));
        }

        RequestOptions requestOptions = new RequestOptions();
        requestOptions.setOfferThroughput(400);

        client.deleteDocument("/dbs/"+databaseName+"/colls/"+collectionName+"/docs/1",requestOptions);

        queryResults  = client.queryDocuments("dbs/"+databaseName+"/colls/"+collectionName, sql, options);


        System.out.println("after delete :");

        for (Document d : queryResults.getQueryIterable()) {
            System.out.println(String.format("\tRead %s", d));
        }
    }
}

Update Answer:

I think you misunderstand the meaning of partitionkey property in the options[].

For example , my container is created like this:

The partition key is "name" for my collection here. You could check your collection's partition key.

And my documents as below :

{
    "id": "1",
    "name": "jay"
}

{
    "id": "2",
    "name": "jay2"
}

My partitionkey is 'name', so here I have two paritions : 'jay' and 'jay1'.

So, here you should set the partitionkey property to 'jay' or 'jay2',not 'name'.

At this point, if I run the code below without setting partition key into RequestOptions, I'll meet the same issue as you.

  RequestOptions requestOptions = new RequestOptions();
  requestOptions.setOfferThroughput(400);

        client.deleteDocument("/dbs/"+databaseName+"/colls/"+collectionName+"/docs/1",requestOptions);

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: PartitionKey value must be supplied for this operation. at com.microsoft.azure.documentdb.DocumentClient.addPartitionKeyInformation(DocumentClient.java:3199) at com.microsoft.azure.documentdb.DocumentClient.addPartitionKeyInformation(DocumentClient.java:3180) at com.microsoft.azure.documentdb.DocumentClient.deleteDocument(DocumentClient.java:959) at DeleteDocuments.main(DeleteDocuments.java:32)

I need to set partition key parameter to be the partition where the operated document stored.

 RequestOptions requestOptions = new RequestOptions();
 requestOptions.setOfferThroughput(400);
 PartitionKey partitionKey = new PartitionKey("jay");
 requestOptions.setPartitionKey(partitionKey);

        client.deleteDocument("/dbs/"+databaseName+"/colls/"+collectionName+"/docs/1",requestOptions);

Update Answer 2:

I guess you want to operate the document which does not set partition key.

Please refer to this perfect blog, you'll find the answer!

In java code , just set partition key to Undefined.Value() then everything will be done.

 RequestOptions requestOptions = new RequestOptions();
 requestOptions.setOfferThroughput(400);
 PartitionKey partitionKey = new PartitionKey(Undefined.Value());
 requestOptions.setPartitionKey(partitionKey);

        client.deleteDocument("/dbs/"+databaseName+"/colls/"+collectionName+"/docs/3",requestOptions);

Hope it helps you.