DELETE Attribute¶

Description¶

The implementation of the DELETE operation deletes the attribute named in the URI.

Requests¶

Syntax¶

DELETE /groups/<id>/<name> HTTP/1.1
X-Hdf-domain: DOMAIN
Authorization: <authorization_string>

DELETE /groups/<id>/<name>?domain=DOMAIN HTTP/1.1
Authorization: <authorization_string>

DELETE /datasets/<id>/<name> HTTP/1.1
X-Hdf-domain: DOMAIN
Authorization: <authorization_string>

DELETE /datasets/<id>/<name>?domain=DOMAIN HTTP/1.1
Authorization: <authorization_string>

DELETE /datatypess/<id>/<name> HTTP/1.1
X-Hdf-domain: DOMAIN
Authorization: <authorization_string>

DELETE /datatypes/<id>/<name>?domain=DOMAIN HTTP/1.1
Authorization: <authorization_string>

<id> is the UUID of the dataset/group/committed datatype
<name> is the url-encoded name of the requested attribute

Request Parameters¶

This implementation of the operation does not use request parameters.

Request Headers¶

This implementation of the operation uses only the request headers that are common to most requests. See Common Request Headers

Responses¶

Response Headers¶

This implementation of the operation uses only response headers that are common to most responses. See Common Response Headers.

Response Elements¶

On success, a JSON response will be returned with the following elements:

hrefs¶

An array of links to related resources. See Hypermedia.

Special Errors¶

This implementation of the operation does not return special errors. For general information on standard error codes, see Common Error Responses.

Examples¶

Sample Request¶

DELETE /groups/g-45f464d8-883e-11e8-a9dc-0242ac12000e/attributes/attr1 HTTP/1.1
Host: hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org
X-Hdf-domain: /shared/tall.h5
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

Sample cURL command¶

$ curl -X DELETE -u username:password --header "X-Hdf-domain: /shared/tall.h5" hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org/groups/g-45f464d8-883e-11e8-a9dc-0242ac12000e/attributes/attr1

Sample Response¶

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 16:06:54 GMT
Content-Length: 13
Content-Type: application/json
Server: nginx/1.15.0

{"hrefs": []}