DeleteThing
Deletes the specified thing. Returns successfully with no error if the deletion is successful or you specify a thing that doesn't exist.
Requires permission to access the DeleteThing action.
Request Syntax
DELETE /things/thingName?expectedVersion=expectedVersion HTTP/1.1
URI Request Parameters
The request uses the following URI parameters.
- expectedVersion
-
The expected version of the thing record in the registry. If the version of the record in the registry does not match the expected version specified in the request, the
DeleteThingrequest is rejected with aVersionConflictException. - thingName
-
The name of the thing to delete.
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.
Pattern:
[a-zA-Z0-9:_-]+Required: Yes
Request Body
The request does not have a request body.
Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.
Errors
- InternalFailureException
-
An unexpected error has occurred.
- message
-
The message for the exception.
HTTP Status Code: 500
- InvalidRequestException
-
The request is not valid.
- message
-
The message for the exception.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- ResourceNotFoundException
-
The specified resource does not exist.
- message
-
The message for the exception.
HTTP Status Code: 404
- ServiceUnavailableException
-
The service is temporarily unavailable.
- message
-
The message for the exception.
HTTP Status Code: 503
- ThrottlingException
-
The rate exceeds the limit.
- message
-
The message for the exception.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- UnauthorizedException
-
You are not authorized to perform this operation.
- message
-
The message for the exception.
HTTP Status Code: 401
- VersionConflictException
-
An exception thrown when the version of an entity specified with the
expectedVersionparameter does not match the latest version in the system.- message
-
The message for the exception.
HTTP Status Code: 409
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
