Delete forums programmatically 

To delete a forum, use the HTTP DELETE method.

Only the owner of a stand-alone forum can delete the forum. Deleted forums 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	Web address returned in the HTTP location header when the forum was created. Web address in the href attribute of the <link> element with the rel="edit" attribute of a forum Atom entry	none

Input

None.

Output

None.

Returned HTTP headers

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

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

Error codes

• HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

• HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Request:

DELETE http://www.dulcinea.com/forums/atom/forum?forumUuid=3b153694-e27e-4085-8868-2952110fdad2 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 forums

   

 

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