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Deleting a Media Asset

Function

This API is used to delete a media asset.

Constraints

Media assets that are being transcoded, reviewed, or captured cannot be deleted.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the required permissions. For details about the required permissions, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions.

URI

DELETE /v1.0/{project_id}/asset

Table 1 Path Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

project_id

Yes

String

Project ID. For details about how to obtain the project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.
Table 2 Query Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

asset_id

Yes

Array of strings

Media asset ID. Multiple media assets can be deleted at a time. Use commas (,) to separate the media asset IDs.

Value range: 1 to 10

delete_type

No

String

Deletion type. If this parameter is set to origin, only the source file is deleted and the transcoded file is retained. If this parameter is left empty, the entire media asset is deleted by default.

Request Parameters

Table 3 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Auth-Token

No

String

User token. This parameter is mandatory when token authentication is used.

It can be obtained by calling the IAM API used to obtain a user token. The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the user token.

Authorization

No

String

Authentication information. This parameter is mandatory for AK/SK authentication.

X-Sdk-Date

No

String

Time when a request is sent. This parameter is mandatory for AK/SK authentication.

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Table 4 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

delete_result_array

Array of DeleteResult objects

Result of the media asset deletion task.
Table 5 DeleteResult

Parameter

Type

Description

asset_id

String

Media asset ID assigned by VOD. It can only be queried but cannot be modified.

status

String

Deletion status.

The options include:

  • DELETED: The deletion succeeded.

  • FAILED: The deletion failed.

Status code: 403

Table 6 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error description.

Example Requests

This example deletes a media asset.

DELETE https://{endpoint}/v1.0/{project_id}/asset?asset_id={asset_id}

Example Responses

Status code: 200

Returned when the request succeeded.

{
  "delete_result_array" : [ {
    "asset_id" : "f488337c31c8e4622f1590735b134c65",
    "status" : "DELETED"
  } ]
}

Status code: 403

Returned when the request failed.

{
  "error_code" : "VOD.10062",
  "error_msg" : "Media asset or resource does not exist, please check."
}

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

200

Returned when the request succeeded.

403

Returned when the request failed.

Error Codes

See Error Codes.

Parent topic: Media Asset Management