files/{fileid}/description (DELETE)
Overview
Reset the file description
- REST Method: DELETE
- Method Access: public
Uri Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
| filename | string | Double uri-encoded file name. Should be prefixed with "=" if it does not have an extension. |
| fileid | int | identifies a file by ID |
| pageid | string | either an integer page ID, "home", or "=" followed by a double uri-encoded page title |
Query Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
| authenticate | bool? | Force authentication for request (default: false) |
| redirects | int? | If zero, do not follow page redirects (only applies when {pageid} is present). |
Return Codes
| Name | Value | Description |
| OK | 200 | Request completed successfully |
| Bad Request | 400 | Invalid input parameter or request body |
| Forbidden | 403 | Update access to the page is required |
| Not Found | 404 | Requested file could not be found |
Message Format
Output :
<file id="{int}" href="{uri}">
<filename>{text}</filename>
<description />
<contents type="{mimetype}" size="{int}" width="{int}" height="{int}" href="{uri}" />
<contents.preview rel="thumb" type="{mimetype}" maxwidth="{int}" maxheight="{int}" href="{uri}" />
<contents.preview rel="webview" type="{mimetype}" maxwidth="{int}" maxheight="{int}" href="{uri}" />
<date.created>{date}</date.created>
<user.createdby id="{int}" href="{uri}">
<nick>{text}</nick>
<username>{text}</username>
<email>{text}</email>
</user.createdby>
<revisions count="{int}" href="{uri}" />
<page.parent id="{int}" href="{uri}">
<title>{text}</title>
<path>{text}</path>
</page.parent>
</file>
Implementation Notes
Use GET:files to retrieve a list of files across the site or GET:pages/{pageid}/files to retrieve the files on a specified page.
C# Code Sample: Delete a File
The following code example deletes the description for file with ID 456:
Sample Code
Plug p = Plug.New("http://help.mindtouch.us/@api/deki");
p.At("users", "authenticate").WithCredentials("admin", "password").Get();
p.At("files", "456", "description").Delete();
Sample Response from executing Code
<file id="456" href="http://help.mindtouch.us/@api/deki/files/456/info">
<filename>myfile.jpg</filename>
<description />
<contents type="image/pjpeg" size="53112" width="476" height="480" href="http://help.mindtouch.us/@api/deki/files/456" />
<contents.preview rel="thumb" type="image/pjpeg" maxwidth="160" maxheight="160" href="http://help.mindtouch.us/@api/deki/files/456?size=thumb" />
<contents.preview rel="webview" type="image/pjpeg" maxwidth="550" maxheight="550" href="http://help.mindtouch.us/@api/deki/files/456?size=webview" />
<date.created>2007-08-23T19:04:53Z</date.created>
<user.createdby id="1" href="http://help.mindtouch.us/@api/deki/users/1">
<nick>Admin</nick>
<username>Admin</username>
<email>admin@mindtouch.com</email>
</user.createdby>
<revisions count="1" href="http://help.mindtouch.us/@api/deki/files/456/revisions" />
<page.parent id="29" href="http://help.mindtouch.us/@api/deki/pages/29">
<title>DekiWiki (Hayes)</title>
<path />
</page.parent>
</file>
Curl Code Sample: Delete File Description
The following command deletes a file description (file ID = 1):
Sample Code
curl -u username:password -X DELETE -i http://mindtouch.address/@api/deki/files/1/description
Implementation notes
curl flags
- -u
- Provides external user authentication.
- -X
- Specifies the HTTP request method.
- -i
- Outputs the HTTP response headers. Useful for debugging.
Sample Response
File ID = 71
HTTP Response Headers
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:33:05 GMT Server: Dream-HTTPAPI/2.0.0.17629 Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0 Content-Length: 2753 Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8 X-Data-Stats: request-time-ms=129; mysql-queries=18; mysql-time-ms=89; X-Deki-Site: id="default" Via: 1.1 dekiwiki
HTTP Response Body
Content-Type: application/xml
<file id="71" revision="5" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/files/71/info">
<filename>trollface.jpg</filename>
<description/>
<contents type="image/jpg" size="88820" width="469" height="428" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/files/71/=trollface.jpg"/>
<contents.preview rel="thumb" type="image/jpeg" maxwidth="160" maxheight="160" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/files/71/=trollface.jpg?size=thumb"/>
<contents.preview rel="webview" type="image/jpeg" maxwidth="550" maxheight="550" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/files/71/=trollface.jpg?size=webview"/>
<date.created>2010-01-21T22:49:09Z</date.created>
<user.createdby id="1" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/users/1">
<nick>Admin</nick>
<username>Admin</username>
<email>admin@admin.com</email>
<hash.email>64e1b8d34f425d19e1ee2ea7236d3028</hash.email>
<uri.gravatar>http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/64e1b8d34f425d19e1ee2ea7236d3028</uri.gravatar>
</user.createdby>
<revisions count="5" totalcount="5" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/files/71/revisions"/>
<page.parent id="567" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/pages/567?redirects=0">
<uri.ui>http://192.168.59.128/FUBAR</uri.ui>
<title>FUBAR</title>
<path>FUBAR</path>
<namespace>main</namespace>
</page.parent>
<properties count="2" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/ deki/files/71/properties">
<property name="urn:deki.mindtouch.com#description" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/files/71/properties/urn%253adeki.mindtouch.com%2523description/info" etag="107.r2_ts2010-01-26T21:33:05Z">
<contents type="text/plain; charset=utf-8" size="0" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/files/71/properties/urn%253adeki.mindtouch.com%2523description"/>
<date.modified>2010-01-26T21:33:05Z</date.modified>
<user.modified id="1" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/users/1">
<nick>Admin</nick>
<username>Admin</username>
<email>admin@admin.com</email>
<hash.email>64e1b8d34f425d19e1ee2ea7236d3028</hash.email>
<uri.gravatar>http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/64e1b8d34f425d19e1ee2ea7236d3028</uri.gravatar>
</user.modified>
</property>
<property name="iscopyright" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/files/71/properties/iscopyright/info" etag="106.r2_ts2010-01-21T19:54:52Z">
<contents type="text/plain" size="3" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/files/71/properties/iscopyright">yes</contents>
<date.modified>2010-01-21T19:54:52Z</date.modified>
<user.modified id="1" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/users/1">
<nick>Admin</nick>
<username>Admin</username>
<email>admin@admin.com</email>
<hash.email>64e1b8d34f425d19e1ee2ea7236d3028</hash.email>
<uri.gravatar>http://www.grav
atar.com/avatar/64e1b8d34f425d19e1ee2ea7236d3028</uri.gravatar>
</user.modified>
<change-description/>
</property>
</properties>
</file>

