Delete a stand-alone forum topic programmatically 

To delete a topic from a forum, use the HTTP DELETE method.

Only the owner of a stand-alone forum can delete a topic from the forum. Deleted topics cannot be restored.

See Authenticating requests for information about how to authenticate the request.

Table 1. Atom API request details

Method	Resource	URI	Input and output representations
DELETE	forum topic	Value of the href attribute of <link> element that has a rel="edit" attribute value for each entry in the forum topics feed.	none

Input

None.

Output

None.

Returned HTTP headers

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Indicates that the forum topic was successfully deleted (and no content is returned).

Error codes

• HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

• HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Request:

DELETE /forums/atom/topic?topicUuid=84139b22-17f0-4290-939b-73370c6ef17c HTTP/1.1
Host: www.dulcinea.com
Content-Type: application/atom+xml
Authorization: xxx

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Parent topic

Work with stand-alone forum topics

Related reference
Forum topic entry content

   

 

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