Deleting Instances in Batches

This API is an out-of-date version and may not be maintained in the future. Please use the API described in Batch Deleting Instances.

Function

This API is used to delete instances in batches.

Deleting an instance will delete the data in the instance without any backup. Exercise caution when performing this operation.

URI

POST /v1.0/{project_id}/instances/action

Table 1 describes the parameter.

**Table 1** Parameter description
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
project_id	String	Yes	Indicates the ID of a project.

Request

Table 2 describes the request parameters.

**Table 2** Parameter description
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
action	String	Yes	Indicates the operation to be performed on instances. The value of this parameter can be delete.
instances	Array	Yes	Indicates the list of instance IDs.
allFailure	String	No	Indicates whether to delete instances that fail to be created in batches. If this parameter is set to true, all instances that fail to be created are deleted. In this case, the instances parameter in the request can be empty.

Example request

Deleting instances in batches:

{ 
    "action" : "delete", 
    "instances" : ["54602a9d-5e22-4239-9123-77e350df4a34", "7166cdea-dbad-4d79-9610-7163e6f8b640"] 
}

Deleting all instances that fail to be created:

{ 
    "action" : "delete", 
    "allFailure" : "true"
}

Response

Response parameters

When action is set to delete, allFailure is set to true, and an empty response is returned, the instances are deleted successfully. Table 3 describes the parameters.

**Table 3** Parameter description
Parameter	Type	Description
results	Array	Indicates the result of instance modification.

**Table 4** results parameter description
Parameter	Type	Description
instance	String	Indicates the instance ID.
result	String	Indicates an operation result, which can be success or failed

Example response

{ 
    "results": [ 
        { 
            "result": "success", 
            "instance": "afc90a2a-a02c-4cba-94d5-58dfa9ad1e0d" 
        }, 
        { 
            "result": "success", 
            "instance": "67fc5f8d-3986-4f02-bb75-4075a23112de" 
        } 
    ] 
}