Delete Preset - Amazon Elastic Transcoder

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Delete Preset

Description

To delete a preset, send a DELETE request to the /2012-09-25/presets/presetId resource.

Note

If the preset has been used, you cannot delete it.

Requests

Syntax

DELETE /2012-09-25/presets/presetId HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: charset=UTF-8 Accept: */* Host: elastictranscoder.Elastic Transcoder endpoint.amazonaws.com:443 x-amz-date: 20130114T174952Z Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AccessKeyID/request-date/Elastic Transcoder endpoint/elastictranscoder/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=host;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, Signature=calculated-signature

Request Parameters

This operation takes the following request parameter.

presetId

The identifier of the preset for which you want to get detailed information.

Request Headers

This operation uses only request headers that are common to all operations. For information about common request headers, see HTTP Header Contents.

Request Body

This operation does not have a request body.

Responses

Syntax

Status: 202 Accepted x-amzn-RequestId: c321ec43-378e-11e2-8e4c-4d5b971203e9 Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: number of characters in the response Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:01:47 GMT { "Success":"true" }

Response Headers

This operation uses only response headers that are common to most responses. For information about common response headers, see HTTP Responses.

Response Body

The response body contains the following JSON object.

Success

If the preset is successfully deleted, the value of Success is true.

Errors

For information about Elastic Transcoder exceptions and error messages, see Handling Errors in Elastic Transcoder.

Examples

The following example request deletes the preset that has the ID 5555555555555-abcde5.

Sample Request

DELETE /2012-09-25/pipelines/5555555555555-abcde5 HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: charset=UTF-8 Accept: */* Host: elastictranscoder.Elastic Transcoder endpoint.amazonaws.com:443 x-amz-date: 20130114T174952Z Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AccessKeyID/request-date/Elastic Transcoder endpoint/elastictranscoder/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=host;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, Signature=calculated-signature

Sample Response

Status: 202 Accepted x-amzn-RequestId: c321ec43-378e-11e2-8e4c-4d5b971203e9 Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: number of characters in the response Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:01:47 GMT { "Success":"true" }