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Delete forum replies
Because replies often have child replies associated with them, when you delete a reply from a forum, the reply is not entirely removed. Instead, if you use the HTTP DELETE command to delete the reply, the reply content is replaced with a standard message that states that the content has been removed. If you want a custom message to be displayed, use the HTTP PUT command instead.
Only the owner of a community can delete a forum reply from it. Deleted replies cannot be restored.
See Authenticating requests for information about how to authenticate the request.
Atom API request details
Method Resource URI Input and output representations DELETE forum reply Value of the href attribute of <link> element that has a rel="edit" attribute value for each entry in the forum replies feed. none
To customize the message that is displayed when the reply is deleted, use a PUT method to delete the reply instead. Be sure to provide the <category scheme="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/flags term="deleted"> element in the entry content. See Updating a forum reply for more information.
Input
None.
Output
None. Returned HTTP Headers
- HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
- Indicates that the forum reply was successfully deleted (and no content is returned).
Error codes
- HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
- HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
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