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<div class="">How to delete stuff using the API:</div>
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<div class="">I haven’t had to try to delete locations, but the principle is the same for most resources. </div>
<div class="">Locations are global, not repository based, so you don’t need the /repositories/$REPO_ID in the URL. </div>
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<div class="">Try /locations/$ID instead of /repositories/$REPO_ID/$THING/$ID. </div>
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<div class="">This was originally written for deleting resources, but I changed it to delete digital_objects ( which don’t get deleted when their owner resource gets deleted. ) I’ve added some annotations to explain. </div>
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<div class=""># [1] set variables:</div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">REPO=<a href="http://localhost:4567" class="">http://localhost:4567</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">REPO_ID=$1</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">THING=digital_objects</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">user=</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">pass=</span></div>
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# [2] clip out the login logic from scripts/curl_as or scripts/curl_as_osx </div>
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# If you’re going to repeat this call thousands of times, it’s better to just do it once at the start</div>
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# rather than call those scripts and do it many times...</div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">session=$(curl -s -F password="$pass" "$REPO/users/$user/login" |</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> sed 's|.*"session":"\([a-z0-9]*\)".*|\1|g')</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">echo "Repo: $REPO/repositories/$REPO_ID" </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">echo "Session $session" 1>&2</span></div>
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# [3] Are you sure ? </div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">curl -H "X-ArchivesSpace-Session: $session" "$REPO/repositories/$REPO_ID" | jq . </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">echo -n "Delete all $THING from this repo? [Y/N]: "; read ANS </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">if [ "$ANS" = "Y" ]</span></div>
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# [4] get the list of resources using "?all_ids=true” </div>
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# this returns a list of IDs. Strip off the “[“, “]” and “,” and iterate over IDs:</div>
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# do a DELETE on each resource ID. </div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">DELETE='-X DELETE'</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">for ID in $( curl -H "X-ArchivesSpace-Session: $session" "$REPO/repositories/$REPO_ID/${THING}?all_ids=true" | tail -1 | tr '[],' ' ' )</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">curl -H "X-ArchivesSpace-Session: $session" $DELETE $REPO/repositories/$REPO_ID/$THING/$ID | jq . </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">done</span></div>
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">On Sep 14, 2016, at 5:52 PM, <a href="mailto:library@princeofpeaceabbey.org" class="">
library@princeofpeaceabbey.org</a> wrote:<br class="">
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I too have this problem. I deleted the locations that I did not want from MySql but they still show up. Tried to delete them from AS but It refused. So if you can put the answer in easy to follow directions I would be happy.<br class="">
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Quoting Jason Loeffler <<a href="mailto:j@minorscience.com" class="">j@minorscience.com</a>>:<br class="">
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You can iterate over the desired location end points via the API and perform a delete operation. Let me know if you need help setting this up. <br class="">
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Technology Consultant | The American Academy in Rome<br class="">
Minor Science | Application Development & Metadata Strategy<br class="">
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minorscience (Skype)<br class="">
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From: Tang, Lydia <ltang5@mail.lib.msu.edu><br class="">
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 14:56<br class="">
Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] location woes<br class="">
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Hello everyone,<br class="">
I’ve definitely learned to try out my more ambitious projects in our test instance after this location snafu. We tried to roll back the instance to a backup last night, reindexed everything, and the bad locations were all still there! If any of you know of
a way to target mass delete the locations (nearly 6500 location entries), please let me know!<br class="">
Lydia<br class="">
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