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DeleteTopic

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DeleteTopic - Amazon Simple Notification Service
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Deletes a topic and all its subscriptions. Deleting a topic might prevent some messages previously sent to the topic from being delivered to subscribers. This action is idempotent, so deleting a topic that does not exist does not result in an error.

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

TopicArn

The ARN of the topic you want to delete.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

AuthorizationError

Indicates that the user has been denied access to the requested resource.

HTTP Status Code: 403

ConcurrentAccess

Can't perform multiple operations on a tag simultaneously. Perform the operations sequentially.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalError

Indicates an internal service error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidParameter

Indicates that a request parameter does not comply with the associated constraints.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidState

Indicates that the specified state is not a valid state for an event source.

HTTP Status Code: 400

NotFound

Indicates that the requested resource does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

StaleTag

A tag has been added to a resource with the same ARN as a deleted resource. Wait a short while and then retry the operation.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TagPolicy

The request doesn't comply with the IAM tag policy. Correct your request and then retry it.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

The structure of AUTHPARAMS depends on the signature of the API request. For more information, see Examples of the complete Signature Version 4 signing process (Python) in the AWS General Reference.

Example

This example illustrates one usage of DeleteTopic.

Sample Request

https://sns.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/?Action=DeleteTopic
&TopicArn=arn%3Aaws%3Asns%3Aus-east-2%3A123456789012%3AMy-Topic
&Version=2010-03-31
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<DeleteTopicResponse xmlns="https://sns.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-03-31/">
    <ResponseMetadata>
        <RequestId>f3aa9ac9-3c3d-11df-8235-9dab105e9c32</RequestId>
    </ResponseMetadata>
</DeleteTopicResponse>

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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