DisposeHIT - Amazon Mechanical Turk


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DisposeHIT

Description

The DisposeHIT operation disposes of a HIT that is no longer needed. Only the Requester who created the HIT can dispose of it.

You can only dispose of HITs that are in the Reviewable state, with all of their submitted assignments already either approved or rejected. If you call the DisposeHIT operation on a HIT that is not in the Reviewable state (for example, that has not expired, or still has active assignments), or on a HIT that is Reviewable but without all of its submitted assignments already approved or rejected, the service returns an error.

Notes
  • HITs are automatically disposed of after 120 days.

  • After you dispose of a HIT, you can no longer approve the HIT's rejected assignments.

  • Disposed of HITs are not returned in results for the SearchHITs operation.

  • Disposing of HITs can improve the performance of operations such as GetReviewableHITs and SearchHITs.

Request Parameters

The DisposeHIT operation accepts parameters common to all operations. Some common parameters are required. See Common Parameters for more information.

The following parameters are specific to the DisposeHIT operation:

Name Description Required

Operation

The name of the operation

Type: String

Valid Values: DisposeHIT

Default: None

Yes

HitId

The ID of the HIT, as returned by the CreateHIT operation.

Type: String

Default: None

Yes

Response Elements

A successful request for the DisposeHIT operation returns with no errors. The response includes the elements described in the following table. The operation returns no other data.

Name Description

DisposeHITResult

Contains a Request element if the Request ResponseGroup is specified.

Examples

The following example shows how to use the DisposeHIT operation.

Sample Request

The following example disposes of the HIT with the specified HIT ID.

https://mechanicalturk.amazonaws.com/?Service=AWSMechanicalTurkRequester &AWSAccessKeyId=[the Requester's Access Key ID] &Version=2017-01-17 &Operation=DisposeHIT &Signature=[signature for this request] &Timestamp=[your system's local time] &HITId=123RVWYBAZW00EXAMPLE

Sample Response

The following is an example response.

<DisposeHITResult> <Request> <IsValid>True</IsValid> </Request> </DisposeHITResult>