topic Re: Deleting items -- JS api in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Deleting items -- JS api

Anonymous User — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:44:22 GMT

I'm using the esri/request module. I can get items just fine, but I'm not able to delete items as I should be able to.

I am using the url format shown in the ArcGIS REST API, like so: http://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/users/username/items/itemid/delete ,

but the error I am getting is "invalid token <".

I then tried putting a "?f=json" on the end of the url, just to find out more. This time, the error I got back was "405 method not allowed".

Is there a way to delete content using the esri.request module? I am authenticated with OAuth 2.0 and the esri/identityManager, so that shouldn't be a problem (and I can see my private items using the get request with the esri/request module).

Re: Deleting items -- JS api

OwenEarley — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 20:47:36 GMT

Are you sending the JSON data via a POST request?

All other HTTP methods should result in the 405 error. See this page in the ArcGIS REST API

Re: Deleting items -- JS api

StevenKitterman1 — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 23:07:16 GMT

I was able to get it to work after all. It turns out that I had to pass the token in the content attribute for the request, not as part of the url.