/entity.delete

Deletes the specified user profile. Alternatively, you can use this endpoint to delete a child attribute of a plural attribute. In that case, only the child attribute is deleted; the rest of the user profile remains as-is.

Warning. Data removed with this API call are permanently deleted.

Refer to the Registration Error Codes section for details on error codes.

This endpoint uses the following methods:

POST

POST

Authentication

This endpoint supports Basic authentication (recommended) as well as janrain-oauth and janrain-signed authentication.

How to Create an Authentication String

Base URL

The base URL for this endpoint is your Identity Cloud Capture domain; for example:

https://educationcenter.us-dev.janraincapture.com

Your Capture domains (also known as Registration domains) can be found in the Console on the Manage Application page:

Examples

Example: Delete a user record

This command deletes the user account where the uuid is equal to c1b6e517-9930-47dd-9fd5-d692053151ce. Note that deleting a user account is permanent: there is no way to restore a deleted account.


curl -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Basic c2dueXZ1czZwYzRqbTdraHIybmVxNWdzODlnYnIyZXE6d3Q0YzN1bjl3a2tjZnZ5a25xeDQ0eW5jNDc2YWZzNjg" \
  --data-urlencode type_name=user \
  --data-urlencode uuid=c1b6e517-9930-47dd-9fd5-d692053151c \
  https://my-app.janraincapture.com/entity.delete

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Example Response


{
  "stat": "ok"
}

Example Error Response


{
  "argument_name": "uuid",
  "request_id": "9mq5bv72q47ehg7g",
  "code": 200,
  "error_description": "uuid was not valid for the following reason: invalid uuid",
  "error": "invalid_argument",
  "stat": "error"
}

Example: Delete a plural within a user record

This command deletes a plural value from the user profile with the UUID 30dd1406-f59a-4145-a6de-b94b5e8cacf3. In this example, the value 30721 is removed from the plural janrain.properties.managedBy.

Important. Be careful when using a command similar to this one: if you do not get the attribute_name exactly right, the endpoint will ignore the plural and, instead, delete the entire user record.


curl -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Basic c2dueXZ1czZwYzRqbTdraHIybmVxNWdzODlnYnIyZXE6d3Q0YzN1bjl3a2tjZnZ5a25xeDQ0eW5jNDc2YWZzNjg" \
  --data-urlencode type_name=user \
  --data-urlencode uuid=30dd1406-f59a-4145-a6de-b94b5e8cacf3 \
  --data-urlencode attribute_name="janrain.properties.managedBy#30721" \
  https://my-app.janraincapture.com/entity.delete

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Example Response


{
  "stat": "ok"
}

Authorized Clients

owner
direct_access

Query Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
attribute_name	string		Attribute path to the plural element to be deleted. Specific instances within a plural are referenced by a combination of the attribute path, a hashtag (#), and the instance ID. For example, janrain.properties.managedBy#30721 points to plural instance 30721 in the plural attribute janrain.properties.managedBy.
created	string		Timestamp generated when the entity was created. This value may be used to help identify the entity in this parameter. If a value is present in this parameter but is incorrect, the call will fail.
id	string		ID of the entity to be deleted. This parameter is required when not using the uuid or key_attribute and key_value parameters. The primary key of the parent object.
key_attribute			Any unique attribute found in the schema. This parameter is required if you do not use the uuid or id parameters, and must be used in conjunction with the key_value parameter.
key_value	string		Unique value of the attribute specified by the key_attribute parameter. Note that all string values must be enclosed in quotes.
lastUpdated	string		Timestamp indicating when the user profile was last updated. This value may be used to help identify the entity in this parameter. If a value is present in this parameter but is incorrect, the call will fail.
type_name	string	Yes	entityType where the user record is stored.
uuid	string		Unique identifier for the entity. Must be used unless you are using the id or key_attribute parameters to identify the user record to be deleted.

How to Create an Authentication String

To create an authentication string, combine your API client ID, a colon (:), and your client secret into a single value. For example, if your client ID is abcdefg and your client secret is hijklmnop, that value would look like this:

abcdefg:hijklmnop

Next, take the string and base64 encode it. For example, on a Mac, you can base encode the string using this command:

echo -n "abcdefg:hijklmnop" | base64

If you’re running Microsoft Windows, you can encode the string by using a Windows PowerShell command similar to this:

[Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes("abcdefg:hijklmn"))

The resulting value (e.g., YWJjZGVmZzpoaWprbG1ub3A=) should be used in your authentication header.

If you are making API calls using Postman, select Basic Auth as your identification type, then use the client ID as the username and the client secret as the password.

Before you actually try your authentication string, make sure that your API client has the all the permissions (for example, the right to read user profile information) needed to complete the API call.

POST

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How to Create an Authentication String