Delete

Examples in this documentation depend on features activated in the ds-evaluation setup profile.

For details, refer to Learn about the evaluation setup profile.

To delete a resource, perform an HTTP DELETE on the resource URL. The operation returns the resource you deleted:

$ curl \
 --request DELETE \
 --cacert ca-cert.pem \
 --user kvaughan:bribery \
 --silent \
 https://localhost:8443/api/users/newuser?_prettyPrint=true

{
  "_id" : "newuser",
  "_rev" : "<revision>",
  "_schema" : "frapi:opendj:rest2ldap:user:1.0",
  "_meta" : {
    "created" : "<datestamp>"
  },
  "userName" : "newuser@example.com",
  "displayName" : [ "New User" ],
  "name" : {
    "givenName" : "User",
    "familyName" : "New"
  },
  "contactInformation" : {
    "telephoneNumber" : "+1 408 555 1212",
    "emailAddress" : "newuser@example.com"
  },
  "manager" : {
    "_id" : "kvaughan",
    "_rev" : "<revision>"
  }
}

To delete a resource only if the resource matches a particular version, use an If-Match: revision header:

$ export REVISION=$(cut -d \" -f 8 <(curl --silent \
 --user kvaughan:bribery \
 --cacert ca-cert.pem \
 https://localhost:8443/api/users/newuser?_fields=_rev))

$ curl \
 --request DELETE \
 --cacert ca-cert.pem \
 --user kvaughan:bribery \
 --header "If-Match: $REVISION" \
 --silent \
 https://localhost:8443/api/users/newuser?_prettyPrint=true

{
  "_id" : "newuser",
  "_rev" : "<revision>",
  "_schema" : "frapi:opendj:rest2ldap:user:1.0",
  "_meta" : {
    "created" : "<datestamp>"
  },
  "userName" : "newuser@example.com",
  "displayName" : [ "New User" ],
  "name" : {
    "givenName" : "User",
    "familyName" : "New"
  },
  "contactInformation" : {
    "telephoneNumber" : "+1 408 555 1212",
    "emailAddress" : "newuser@example.com"
  },
  "manager" : {
    "_id" : "kvaughan",
    "_rev" : "<revision>"
  }
}

To delete a resource and all of its children, follow these high-level steps:

Make sure that the REST to LDAP configuration does map the resources to delete to LDAP entries.

For an example, refer to Nested resources.
If you are using the gateway, this requires the default setting of true for useSubtreeDelete in WEB-INF/classes/rest2ldap/rest2ldap.json.

Only users who have access to request a tree delete can delete resources with children.

Allow the REST user to use the subtree delete control:

$ dsconfig \
 set-access-control-handler-prop \
 --hostname localhost \
 --port 4444 \
 --bindDN uid=admin \
 --bindPassword password \
 --add global-aci:"(targetcontrol=\"SubtreeDelete\")\
 (version 3.0; acl \"Allow Subtree Delete\"; allow(read) \
 userdn=\"ldap:///uid=kvaughan,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com\";)" \
 --usePkcs12TrustStore /path/to/opendj/config/keystore \
 --trustStorePassword:file /path/to/opendj/config/keystore.pin \
 --no-prompt

Request the delete as a user who has rights to perform a subtree delete on the resource.

This can be a resource-intensive operation. The resources required to remove a branch depend on the number of LDAP entries to delete.

Directory Services 7.3.5

Delete