DELETE /api/discussions/{DiscussionID}

Deletes the specified discussion.

Authorization Roles/Permissions: Must be logged in. Only a Site Admin or the user who submitted the discussion can delete a discussion.

This topic includes the following sections:

HTTP Method

DELETE

URL

https://{hostname}/api/discussions/{DiscussionID}

Sample Request

The example below shows a request to delete the specified discussion.

Sample Request URL

https://{hostname}/api/discussions/discussion658623.acmepaymentscorp

Sample request headers

Accept: text/plain
X-Csrf-Token_acmepaymentscorp: TokenID%3D8ed70a13-8469-11e8-b37a-b155e4eabeb8%2CexpirationTime%3D153...

Sample request body

None.

Request Headers

For general information on request header values, refer to HTTP Request Headers.

Header Description
Accept Any Accept header value that supports a response Content-Type of text/plain is valid; for example, */*. Also application/vnd.soa.v71+json, application/vnd.soa.v72+json
Content-Type Any format (*/*)
Cookie AtmoAuthToken_{fedmemberid}={cookie value, which usually starts with TokenID}—The platform cookie. This is the Akana API Platform authorization token, and must be sent with every API request that requires login. For more information and an example, see Session cookies.
X-Csrf-Token_{fedmemberID} The CSRF prevention header; may or may not be required, depending on platform settings. See CSRF Prevention on the Platform. By default, the CSRF header is not required for GET operations and is required for all others, with a few exceptions relating to user login.

Request Parameters

Parameter Parm Type Data Type Required Description
DiscussionID Path string Required The unique ID for a specific discussion.

Response

If successful, this operation returns HTTP status code 200, and the discussion is deleted. There is no response content.

Sample Response

The sample response below shows successful completion of this operation.

Sample response headers

Status Code: 200 OK
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 18:32:07 GMT

Sample response body

None

Response Headers

For general information on response header values, refer to HTTP Response Headers.

Header Description
Content-Type text/plain

Response Body

None.

Error Codes/Messages

If the call is unsuccessful an error code/message is returned. One or more examples of possible errors for this operation are shown below.

Item Value
401 Unauthorized. For example, you would get this response if you didn't include the custom X-Csrf-Token_{fedmemberID} header in the request, when it was required by the platform settings; or if you included an invalid or expired value for this header. You would also get this response for any operation that requires login (almost all) if the login cookie was missing.
500 An error occurred processing the call.

More information about Akana API Platform API error messages.