Deleting an empty directory

Content Platform Tenant Management
Version
9.7.x
File Size
4269 KB
Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-95HCPH002-19

You use the HTTP DELETE method to delete an empty directory from a namespace. You cannot delete a directory that contains any objects, subdirectories, or symbolic links.

Access permission

To delete a directory you need delete permission for the namespace.

Request header

DELETE /rest/directory/empty_dir HTTP/1.1
Parameter Required Description
directory Yes Folder name.
empty_dir Yes Name of the empty directory that you want to delete.

Response header

This operation does not return any request-specific response headers.

Response body

Not applicable

Status codes

The table below describes the HTTP status codes that have specific meaning for this request.

Code Meaning Description
200 OK HCP successfully deleted the directory.
404 Not Found

The request specified a conditional header, such as If-Match.

If more information about the error is available, the HTTP response headers include the HCP-specific X‑HCP-ErrorMessage header.
403 Forbidden

One of:

  • The Authorization header or hcp-ns-auth cookie specifies invalid credentials.
  • The namespace requires client authentication, and the request does not have an Authorization header or hcp-ns-auth cookie.
  • The specified directory is not empty.
  • The user doesn’t have delete permission.
  • The namespace does not exist.
  • The access method (HTTP or HTTPS) is disabled.

If more information about the error is available, the response headers include the HCP-specific X‑HCP-ErrorMessage header.
404 Not Found

One of:

  • HCP could not find a directory, object, or version at the specified URL. The specified directory does not exist, or the request specified a directory that has been deleted.
  • Any component of the URL except for the last component in the path is a symbolic link to a directory.
409 Conflict HCP could not delete the specified directory because the directory is currently being written to the namespace.

Example: Deleting an empty directory

Here’s a sample HTTP DELETE request that deletes the directory named obsolete from the quarterly_rpts directory in the namespace.

Request with curl command line

curl -k -iX DELETE
    -H "Authorization: HCP bXl1c2Vy:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d"
   "https://finance.europe.hcp.example.com/rest/quarterly_rpts/obsolete”

Request in Python using PycURL

import pycurl
curl = pycurl.Curl()
curl.setopt(pycurl.HTTPHEADER, ["Authorization: HCP
  bXl1c2Vy:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d"])
curl.setopt(pycurl.URL, "https://finance.europe.hcp.example.com \
  /rest/quarterly_rpts/obsolete")
curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0)
curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0)
curl.setopt(pycurl.CUSTOMREQUEST, "DELETE")
curl.perform()
print curl.getinfo(pycurl.RESPONSE_CODE)
curl.close()

Request headers

DELETE /rest/quarterly_rpts/obsolete HTTP/1.1
Host: finance.europe.hcp.example.com
Authorization: HCP bXl1c2Vy:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d

Response headers

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-HCP-ServicedBySystem: hcp.example.com
X-HCP-Time: 1334829227
Content-Length: 00