Deleting a location

Important

If the location has registered storages, you must delete or move them first. Otherwise, you will not be able to delete the location.

1. Authenticate to the cloud platform via the Python shell.

   The following variables should be available now:

   >>> base_url  # the base URL of the API
   'https://eu2-cloud.acronis.com/api/2'
   >>> auth  # the 'Authorization' header value with the access token
   {'Authorization': 'Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6ImMwMD...'}
   >>> tenant_id  # the UUID of the tenant to which the token provides access
   'ede9f834-70b3-476c-83d9-736f9f8c7dae'
   

2. Assign the location_id variable the UUID of a location created via the API or a location found in tenant’s locations:

   >>> location_id = created_location_id
   >>> location_id
   '8fcd353b-0a40-40f2-9a55-ef8137d48800'
   

3. Fetch the revision number of the location as described in the chapters above. The following variable should be available now:

   >>> version
   0
   

4. Define a variable named params, and then assign the version query string parameter to this variable:

   >>> params = {
   ...     'version': version
   ... }
   

   Name	Value type	Required	Description
   version	number	Yes	Revision number.

5. Send a DELETE request to the /locations/{location_id} endpoint:

   >>> response = requests.delete(f'{base_url}/locations/{location_id}', headers=auth, params=params)
   

6. Check the status code of the response:

   >>> response.status_code
   204
   

   Status code 204 means that the location has been deleted.

   A different status code means that an error has occurred. For the details, refer to “Status and error codes”.