Delete a file and its metadata
Delete a file and the Atom document representation of its associated metadata from your collection.Only the owner of a collection can delete a file from the collection.
See Authenticating requests for information about how to authenticate the request.
Table 1. Atom API request details
Method URI Input and output representations DELETE You can determine the URI in either of the following ways:
- Value of the href attribute of the <link rel="edit"> element in the file's Document Atom entries.
- Construct the URI using the following syntax: /basic/api/myuserlibrary/document/{document-id}/entry
none
Note: {document-id} is the value of the <td:uuid> or <td:label> elements in the file's Atom entry document.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
Input
None.
Output
None.Returned HTTP headers
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Indicates that the file metadata was successfully deleted.
- HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
- HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
- HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
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