The implementation of the DELETE operation deletes the dataset named in the URI. All attributes and links of the dataset will also be deleted. In addition any links from other groups to the deleted group will be removed.
DELETE /datasets/<id> HTTP/1.1
Host: DOMAIN
Authorization: <authorization_string><id> is the UUID of the requested dataset to be deleted.
This implementation of the operation does not use request parameters.
This implementation of the operation uses only the request headers that are common to most requests. See ../CommonRequestHeaders
This implementation of the operation uses only response headers that are common to most responses. See ../CommonResponseHeaders.
On success, a JSON response will be returned with the following elements:
An array of links to related resources. See ../Hypermedia.
The implementation of the operation does not return special errors. For general information on standard error codes, see ../CommonErrorResponses.
DELETE /datasets/289bb654-a2c6-11e4-97d8-3c15c2da029e HTTP/1.1
Content-Length: 0
User-Agent: python-requests/2.3.0 CPython/2.7.8 Darwin/14.0.0
host: tall_dset112_deleted.test.hdfgroup.org
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflateHTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 06:07:49 GMT
Content-Length: 287
Content-Type: application/json
Server: TornadoServer/3.2.2{
"hrefs": [
{"href": "http://tall_dset112_deleted.test.hdfgroup.org/datasets", "rel": "self"},
{"href": "http://tall_dset112_deleted.test.hdfgroup.org/groups/289b4873-a2c6-11e4-adfb-3c15c2da029e", "rel": "root"},
{"href": "http://tall_dset112_deleted.test.hdfgroup.org/", "rel": "home"}
]
}GET_DatasetsGET_DatasetPOST_Dataset