Deleting Assets

When the asset is deleted, the metadata is deleted synchronously. All variant content is removed from the object store asynchronously, however the variant metadata is deleted synchronously and the asset is no longer accessible using Konifer APIs.

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Deleting an asset is unrecoverable. There is no way to reverse a delete, and there is no soft-delete mechanism!

Request

Request options are similar to fetching an asset. Order selectors and limits are available.

Delete Specific Asset

Delete a specific asset by specifying its entryId.

DELETE /assets/users/123/-/entry/0

Ordering

Ordering is specified using the order query selector.

Order	Description	Default if not supplied
new	Order by last-created (stack semantics)	Yes
modified	Order by last-modified

Limit

Multiple assets can be deleting using limits. Specify limit using the limit query parameter.

• Default: 1
• Delete all at path: -1

Deleting Recursively

By using the recursive selector, you can delete all assets in a path as well as all sub-paths.

DELETE /assets/users/123/-/recursive

Response

A 204 No Content is always returned regardless of whether an asset was actually deleted or not.