Deleting a user account
Warning
To delete a user account
Authenticate to the cloud platform via the Python shell.
The following variables should be available now:
>>> base_url # the base URL of the API '<the data center URL>/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'
Assign the
user_id
variable the UUID of a user account created via the API or a user account found via search:>>> user_id = created_user_id >>> user_id '1c234e69-5469-424a-a6d1-ff5658b387a6'
Fetch the revision number of the user account as described in Fetching user account information. The following variable should be available now:
>>> version 1
Define a variable named
params
, and then assign theversion
query string parameter to this variable:>>> params = { ... 'version': version ... }
Name
Value type
Required
Description
version
number
Yes
Revision number.
Send a DELETE request to the
/users/{user_id}
endpoint:>>> response = requests.delete(f'{base_url}/users/{user_id}', headers=auth, params=params)
Check the status code of the response:
>>> response.status_code 204
Status code 204 means that the user account has been successfully deleted.
Note
A different status code means that an error has occurred. For details of the error, see HTTP status response codes and API error codes.