Delete

Deleting a content is an http DELETE request under the hood. You can call it by defining the content that you want to delete and setting whether the deleted item should be first moved to the trash or be deleted immediately. These DELETE requests will return a JSON similar to the following. It contains the number of deleted items, basic info about the deleted item(s) and if some of the given contents cannot be deleted for some reason, there will be error messages listed in the errors array:

{
  "d": {
    "__count": 1,
    "results": [
      {
        "Id": 1335,
        "Path": "/Root/Content/IT/Tasks/Debug",
        "Name": "Debug"
      }
    ],
    "errors": []
  }
}

Delete a single content

The following example shows you how to delete a folder:

url: "/OData.svc/Root/Content/IT/Document_Library('Calgary')/Delete"

Delete multiple content at once

With the next example you can remove a bunch of documents at once:

url: "/OData.svc/Root/Content('IT')/DeleteBatch",
body: {
  "paths":[
    "/Root/Content/IT/Document_Library/Chicago/100Pages.docx",
    "/Root/Content/IT/Document_Library/Chicago/VehicleLog.xlsx",
    "/Root/Content/IT/Document_Library/Chicago/SalesTraining.pptx",
    "/Root/Content/IT/Document_Library/Chicago/ComeCelebrate.pdf"
    ]
}

Move items to the trash

This example shows you how to move a content to the trash:

url: "/OData.svc/Root/Content/IT/Document_Library/Chicago('100Pages.docx')/Delete",
body: {
  permanent: false
}