[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Batch delete

[Steven Majewski]

On May 28, 2014, at 9:15 AM, Bridger Dyson-Smith <bdysonsm at utk.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Is there a batch process for deleting/backing out of an import job? Or is there some other work-around to accomplish a bulk resource removal?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

You can delete all of the resources in a repo thru the backend web api with something like this:


REPO=http://localhost:8089
#
REPO_ID=$1
#
DELETE='-X DELETE'
for ID in $( curl_as_osx admin admin "$REPO/repositories/$REPO_ID/resources?all_ids=true" | tail -1 | tr '[],' ' ' )
do
curl_as_osx admin admin $DELETE $REPO/repositories/$REPO_ID/resources/$ID | tail -1 | json_pp 
done


i.e. First curl gets the list of resource ids in that repo. Loop over the list and do a HTTP DELETE on each resource. 

If you don’t want to delete them all, there may be a way to do a finer selection thru the search API, but I haven’t figure out how to do it. 
Perhaps something like this  is easier to do in the jirb console. 


— Steve Majewski



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