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Deletes desktops in batches

Deletes desktops in batches. The deleted desktops cannot be restored.

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POST /v2/{project_id}/desktops/batch-delete

**Table 1** Path Parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
project_id	Yes	String	Project ID.

**Table 2** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	No	String	User token. It can be obtained by calling the IAM API that is used to obtain a user token. The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the user token.
Content-Type	No	String	MIME type of the request body.

**Table 3** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
desktop_ids	Yes	Array of strings	IDs of the desktops to be deleted.
delete_users	No	Boolean	After a desktop is deleted, if the current user does not have other desktops, the desktop user can be deleted. The options are true (yes) and false (no). The default value is false.
email_notification	No	Boolean	Whether to send an email notification. The options are true (yes) and false (no). The default value is true.
is_force_delete	No	Boolean	Whether to perform force deletion or not. true: yes; false: no

Status code: 202

**Table 4** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
job_id	String	Task ID.

Status code: 400

**Table 5** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error_code	String	Error code, which is returned upon failure.
error_msg	String	Error description.
error_detail	String	Error details.
encoded_authorization_message	String	Encrypted detailed reason for rejection. You can call the API decode-authorization-message of STS to decrypt the reason.

Status code: 401

**Table 6** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error_code	String	Error code, which is returned upon failure.
error_msg	String	Error description.
error_detail	String	Error details.
encoded_authorization_message	String	Encrypted detailed reason for rejection. You can call the API decode-authorization-message of STS to decrypt the reason.

Status code: 403

**Table 7** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error_code	String	Error code, which is returned upon failure.
error_msg	String	Error description.
error_detail	String	Error details.
encoded_authorization_message	String	Encrypted detailed reason for rejection. You can call the API decode-authorization-message of STS to decrypt the reason.

Status code: 404

**Table 8** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error_code	String	Error code, which is returned upon failure.
error_msg	String	Error description.
error_detail	String	Error details.
encoded_authorization_message	String	Encrypted detailed reason for rejection. You can call the API decode-authorization-message of STS to decrypt the reason.

Status code: 409

**Table 9** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error_code	String	Error code, which is returned upon failure.
error_msg	String	Error description.
error_detail	String	Error details.
encoded_authorization_message	String	Encrypted detailed reason for rejection. You can call the API decode-authorization-message of STS to decrypt the reason.

Status code: 500

**Table 10** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error_code	String	Error code, which is returned upon failure.
error_msg	String	Error description.
error_detail	String	Error details.
encoded_authorization_message	String	Encrypted detailed reason for rejection. You can call the API decode-authorization-message of STS to decrypt the reason.

{
  "desktop_ids" : [ "1d81c1dc-312b-4621-b778-bac3a1336442", "34e25501-fd50-42b5-97ca-f4c5bb7b09b0" ]
}

Status code: 202

Normal.

{
  "job_id" : "abc85365-0b2e-4b4f-a091-f7db72072d4b"
}

Status Code	Description
202	Normal.
400	The request cannot be understood by the server due to malformed syntax.
401	Authentication failed.
403	No operation permissions.
404	No resources found.
409	Operation conflict.
500	An internal service error occurred. For details about the error code, see the error code description.