DELETE Datatype¶

Description¶

The implementation of the DELETE operation deletes the committed datatype: named in the URI. All attributes of the datatype will also be deleted.

Requests¶

Syntax¶

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

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

<id> is the UUID of the datatype to be deleted.

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¶

This implementation of the operation does not return any response elements.

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 /datatypes/t-6b0bdf9a-86b2-11e8-89f2-0242ac120009 HTTP/1.1
Host: hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org
X-Hdf-domain: /shared/tall.h5
Content-Length: 0
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

Sample cURL command¶

$ curl -X DELETE -u username:password --header "X-Hdf-domain: /shared/tall.h5" hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org/datatypes/t-6b0bdf9a-86b2-11e8-89f2-0242ac120009

Sample Response¶

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:49:44 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Server: nginx/1.15.0