Delete a comment
Delete a comment associated with a file belonging to you or to someone else and to which you have access.See Authenticating requests for information about how to authenticate the request.
Table 1. Atom API request details
Method URI Input and output representations Description DELETE /basic/api/userlibrary/{userid}/document/{document-id}/comment/{comment-id}/entry none Deletes a comment from a someone else's file. DELETE /basic/api/myuserlibrary/document/{document-id}/comment/{comment-id}/entry none Deletes a comment from one of your files. You can also find the URI of the resource in the value of the href attribute of the <link rel="edit"> element for each entry in the Comments feed.
- {userid} is the value of the <snx:userid> of the person who owns the file. See Search Profiles for information about how to determine a person's user ID.
- {document-id} is the value of the <td:uuid> or <td:label> of the file and can be found in the file's Atom document. If you specify the document by label, also provide the identifier=label parameter as part of the request.
You can use this input header in a POST request instead of using the DELETE request.
Table 2. Input headers
Parameter Description X-Method-Override Tunnels a DELETE request over HTTP POST You can use this input parameter with the DELETE request.
Table 3. Input parameters
Parameter Description identifier Indicates how the document is identified in the {document-id} variable segment of the web address. By default, look up is performed with the expectation that the URL contains the value from the <td:uuid> element of a File Atom entry. Specify "label" if the URL instead contains the value from the <td:label> element of a File Atom entry.
Input
None.
Output
None.Returned HTTP headers
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Indicates that the comment was successfully deleted.
- HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
- HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Can occur if you specify the document ID using the document label, but do not provide the identifier parameter to indicate that you are using the label as the identifier.
Parent topic
Work with commentsRelated reference
Search Profiles programmatically
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