REST Interface for BPEL-related Task Resources - Business Category Instance Resource - DELETE Method

Sample method invocation

Parameters

Optional Parameters

Name	Value Type	Description
recursive	string	Indicates whether all subcategories are recursively deleted as well. Value Description true Recursively delete all subcategories. false (default) Subcategories are not deleted.

Request Content

None

Response Content

The default content-type is application/json.

MIME Type: application/json

{  "description": "Business Category Delete Response", 
   "type": "object",
   "properties":
   {  "identifier": {"type": "string"},
      "items": 
      [
         {
            "bcid": {"type": "string",
               "description": "ID of the deleted business category."
            },
            "name": {"type": "string",
               "description": "Name of the deleted business category."
            }
         }
      ]
   }
}

Error Response Content

The default content-type is application/json.

MIME Type: application/json

{  "description": "Error Response", 
   "type": "object",
   "properties":
   {  "errorNumber": {"type": "string",
         "description": "Message ID of the exception."
      },
      "errorMessage": {"type": "string",
         "description": "Message text of the exception."
      },
      "errorMessageParameters": {"type": ["string"], "optional": true,
         "description":"Message text parameters of the exception."
      },
      "programmersDetails": {"type": "object", "optional": true,
         "description":"Additional, exception details, for example, a stack trace."
      }
   }
} 

Status codes

The method returns one of the following status codes:

Code	Description
200 OK	Success completion.
400 Bad Request	The parameters are not valid or they are missing.
401 Unauthorized	The caller is not authorized for this request.
403 Forbidden	The caller is not allowed to complete this request.
404 Not Found	The business category does not exist.
406 Not Acceptable	The requested content type or content encoding is not supported.
409 Conflict	The parameter recursive has been set to false and subcategories still exist.
500 Internal Server Error	A severe problem has occurred. Programmer's details are provided.

Available since

7.0 Feature Pack

Parent topic: Business Category Instance Resource