Delete Source Description

This example request illustrates how to delete a source description. This will not delete the references to the source description so you will need to clean up any references before deleting the source description.

JSON

Request

DELETE /platform/sources/descriptions/MMMM-MMM
X-Reason: testDelete use case 1 reason
Content-Type: application/x-gedcomx-v1+json
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE
                
              

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Content-type: text/html
X-processing-time: 3
Vary: Accept,Accept-Language,Accept-Encoding,Expect
Content-length: 0
Content-location: /platform/sources/descriptions/MMMM-MMM
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 1836 10:00:00 GMT-5
Cache-control: no-transform, must-revalidate, max-age=0
                
              

XML

Request

DELETE /platform/sources/descriptions/MMMM-MMM
X-Reason: testDelete use case 1 reason
Content-Type: application/x-gedcomx-v1+xml
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE
                
              

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Content-type: text/html
X-processing-time: 3
Vary: Accept,Accept-Language,Accept-Encoding,Expect
Content-length: 0
Content-location: /platform/sources/descriptions/MMMM-MMM
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 1836 10:00:00 GMT-5
Cache-control: no-transform, must-revalidate, max-age=0