Delete Metadata Identification Keys

Important

Prerequisites: You need to enable profiles in UCS.

/metadata/identification-keys/${id_key-name}

Description

Allows the deletion of Identification keys. The records in metadata table are removed, and the related table is dropped (if any). An identification key can be created based on the core profile attribute, but in this case a table is not created. Therefore, no table is dropped when it is deleted.

Operation

ID	CV.WS.PROF.META.8
URI	/metadata/identification-keys/${id_key-name}
Method	DELETE
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
URI Parameter
${id_key-name}	string	yes	The metadata identification key name to delete. This name is not case-sensitive.

Response

The Context Management Service API answers with HTTP codes for every request. The following table shows the correct response for a successful request. See HTTP Response Codes and Errors for further details on the possible codes that this operation can return.

Response

HTTP code	204
HTTP message	Success No Content

Example

The following operation deletes an identification key.

Operation

 DELETE /metadata/identification-keys/idNickName

Result

HTTP/1.1 204 OK 
Success No Content

Important

If nothing was deleted, HTTP status code 404 ("Not Found") is sent.