Description

Delete existing categories by given list of object ids, tolerant to missing or already deleted ids.

URI

/api/account/{accountId}/configuration/le-categories/categories?v=2.0

HTTP Methods

DELETE

Response Codes

200 OK

304 Not Modified

400 Bad Request

401 Not Authorized

403 Forbidden

409 Conflict

500 Internal server error

Formats

JSON

Path Parameters

Parameter Description Notes
accountId LP site id Validation fail error code: 400 Type: String

Query Parameters

Parameter Description Notes
select dynamic selection of response fields Default: $all alias: id,deleted,name,order,proposed Available aliases: $all: id,deleted,name,order,proposed $summary: id,deleted,name type: YOGA 'gdata' dialect validation error: 400 supported fields: any in response body **yoga GData dialect builder url: https://github.com/skyscreamer/yoga/wiki/Using-the-Selector-Builder-GUI
return determine the return policy Default: none — return the active revision with no response body. 'order’ attribute is not maintained by the server Also accepts: active — return all active (non-deleted) categories with the response body all — return all categories with the response body, including the deleted categories On both 'active’ and 'all’ the 'order’ attribute is maintained by the server

Request Headers

Header Description
Authorization Contains token string to allow request authentication and authorization. See the doc for more details.
X-HTTP-Method-Override=DELETE Tells to the backend this POST request is actually DELETE
If-Match Contains AC Categories current revision number

Request Body

['12345','67890']

Response Headers

Header Description
ac-revision This parameter specifies the version of the data object retrieved. You can use the If-Match parameter in the request to retrieve a specifc version using this parameter's value. after the operation

Response Body

Delete a multiple categories data, depends on the 'return’ query parameter

Delete categories example:

Initial state:

Site contains 4 categories (id/order/name triplets): 11,1,"IPhone5”; 22,2,”Nexus5”; 33,3,”Nexus6”; 44,4,”IPhone5C”

After deletion of category ids 22,33 state:

Site contains 2 active categories (id/order/name triplets): 11,1,"IPhone5”; 44,3,”IPhone5C”

Note that 3 out of 4 existing order values are affected by the delete operation.

Response body without return policy specified (default = NONE): no response body

Response body with return policy ACTIVE

[{ "id":11, "deleted":false, "name":"IPhone5", "order":1, "proposed":true },{ "id":44, "deleted":false, "name":"IPhone5C", "order":2, "proposed":true }]

Response body with return policy ALL

[{ "id":11, "deleted":false, "name":"IPhone5", "order":1, "proposed":true },{ "id":22, "deleted":true, "name":"Nexus5", "order":2, "proposed":true },{ "id":33, "deleted":true, "name":"Nexus6", "order":3, "proposed":true },{ "id":44, "deleted":false, "name":"IPhone5C", "order":2, "proposed":true }]