Function

This API is used to delete multiple DCS instances at a time.

URI

DELETE /v1.0/{project_id}/instances?allFailure={allFailure}

Table 1 describes the parameters.

**Table 1** Parameter description
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
project_id	String	Yes	Project ID. For details on how to obtain the value of this parameter, see Obtaining a Project ID.
allFailure	String	No	An indicator of whether all DCS instances failed to be created will be deleted. Options: Options: true: all instances that fail to be created are deleted. In this case, the instances parameter in the request can be empty. false or other values: The DCS instances specified by the instances parameter in the API request will be deleted.

Request

Request parameters

Table 2 describes the request parameters.

**Table 2** Parameter description
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
instances	Array	No	IDs of DCS instances to be deleted. This parameter is set only when the allFailure parameter in the URI is set to false or another value. A maximum of 50 instances can be deleted at a time.

Request URL:

DELETE https://{dcs_endpoint}/v1.0/{project_id}/instances?allFailure={allFailure}

Example request with allFailure set to false:

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

Response

Response parameters

If the value of the allFailure parameter in the URI is false, an empty response is then returned. If the value of the allFailure parameter in the URI is true, a response containing the parameter in Table 3 is returned.

**Table 3** Parameter description
Parameter	Type	Description
results	Array	For details about how to delete an instance, see Table 4.

**Table 4** results parameter description
Parameter	Type	Description
instance	String	DCS instance ID.
result	String	Instance deletion result. Options: success and failed

Example response

{
    "results": [
        {
            "instance": "54602a9d-5e22-4239-9123-77e350df4a34",
            "result": "success"
        },
        {
            "instance": "7166cdea-dbad-4d79-9610-7163e6f8b640",
            "result": "success"
        }
    ]
}

Status Code

Table 5 describes the status code of successful operations. For details about other status codes, see Table 1.

**Table 5** Status codes
Status Code	Description
200	DCS instances deleted successfully.
204	DCS instances that failed to be created are cleared successfully.

Batch Deleting DCS Instances

Function

URI

Request

Response

Status Code