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Deleting a Custom Identity Policy

Function

This API is used to delete a custom identity policy. Ensure that it is not attached to any IAM users, groups, agencies, or trust agencies.

Authorization Information

Each account root user has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the following required identity policy-based permissions. For details about the required permissions, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions.

Action

Access Level

Resource Type (*: required)

Condition Key

Alias

Dependencies

iam:policies:deleteV5

Permission_management

policy *

-

-

-

URI

DELETE /v5/policies/{policy_id}

Table 1 Path Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

policy_id

Yes

String

Definition:

Identity policy ID.

Constraints:

The value can contain 1 to 64 characters. Only letters, digits, and hyphens (-) are allowed.

Range:

N/A

Default Value:

N/A

Request Parameters

None

Response Parameters

Status code: 204

Successful

Status code: 403

Table 2 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Definition :

Error code. For details, see Error Code.

Range:

The format is PAP5.XXXX, for example, PAP5.0012.

error_msg

String

Definition :

Error message. For details, see Error Message.

Range:

N/A.

request_id

String

Definition:

Unique identifier of an API request, which is used to locate API calling exceptions.

Range:

N/A

encoded_authorization_message

String

Definition :

Encrypted details returned when the authentication fails, which are used to locate authentication problems. The STS5 decryption API can be used for decryption. For details, see API link.

Range:

N/A.

Status code: 404

Table 3 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Definition :

Error code. For details, see Error Code.

Range:

The format is PAP5.XXXX, for example, PAP5.0012.

error_msg

String

Definition :

Error message. For details, see Error Message.

Range:

N/A.

request_id

String

Definition:

Unique identifier of an API request, which is used to locate API calling exceptions.

Range:

N/A

Status code: 409

Table 4 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Definition :

Error code. For details, see Error Code.

Range:

The format is PAP5.XXXX, for example, PAP5.0012.

error_msg

String

Definition :

Error message. For details, see Error Message.

Range:

N/A.

request_id

String

Definition:

Unique identifier of an API request, which is used to locate API calling exceptions.

Range:

N/A

Example Requests

Deleting a specified custom identity policy

DELETE https://{endpoint}/v5/policies/{policy_id}

Example Responses

None

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

204

Successful

403

Forbidden

404

Not found

409

Conflict

Error Codes

See Error Codes.