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Delete an existing file or directory

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DELETE /storage/volumes/{volume.uuid}/files/{path}

Introduced In: 9.8

Deletes an existing file or directory. Query-based DELETE operations are not supported.

Parameters

Name Type In Required Description

volume.uuid

string

path

True

Volume UUID

path

string

path

True

The relative path of a directory in the volume. The path field requires using "%2E" to represent "." and "%2F" to represent "/" for the path provided.

recurse

boolean

query

False

Delete an entire directory. The behaviour of this call is equivalent to rm -rf.

  • Default value:

throttle_deletion

integer

query

False

The maximum number of directory delete operations per second. A valid throttle_deletion number is an integer from 10 to 100000.

return_timeout

integer

query

False

The number of seconds to allow the call to execute before returning. When doing a POST, PATCH, or DELETE operation on a single record, the default is 0 seconds. This means that if an asynchronous operation is started, the server immediately returns HTTP code 202 (Accepted) along with a link to the job. If a non-zero value is specified for POST, PATCH, or DELETE operations, ONTAP waits that length of time to see if the job completes so it can return something other than 202.

  • Default value: 1

  • Max value: 120

  • Min value: 0

Response

Status: 200, Ok

Response

Status: 202, Accepted

Error

Status: Default

ONTAP Error Response Codes

Error Code Description

131074

No such file or directory.

131102

Read-only file system.

131138

Directory not empty.

918235

A volume with UUID {volume.uuid} was not found.

6488081

The {field} field is not supported for DELETE operations.
Name Type Description

error

error
Example error 
{
  "error": {
    "arguments": {
      "code": "string",
      "message": "string"
    },
    "code": "4",
    "message": "entry doesn't exist",
    "target": "uuid"
  }
}

Definitions

See Definitions

error_arguments

Name Type Description

code

string

Argument code

message

string

Message argument

error

Name Type Description

arguments

array[error_arguments]

Message arguments

code

string

Error code

message

string

Error message

target

string

The target parameter that caused the error.