Deleting a pod from my local community solid server

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1

Hello

Is it possible to delete a pod from an account on the Community Solid Server through their JSON API? I tried the following code but this returns a statuscode 500.

const podIdToDelete = '...'
    const podUrl = '.../${podIdToDelete}'
    res = await fetch(podUrl, {
        headers: {
            authorization: `CSS-Account-Token ${authorizationValue}`,
            'content-type': 'application/json'
        },
        method: 'DELETE'
    })
    data = await res.json()

    console.log(`Pod deleted: `, data)

Output:

Pod deleted:  {
  name: 'InternalServerError',
  message: 'Received unexpected non-HttpError: Unexpected end of JSON input',
  statusCode: 500,
  errorCode: 'H500',
  details: {}
}

Is it even possible to delete a pod from an account or do you need to delete the entire account?

I also noticed the webId linked to the pod can be deleted in the GUI on my localhost:3000. What would happen with the pod if I deleted the only webId linked to it?

Thanks in advance!

2

Neither you nor anyone else would be able to be authorized to use the pod.

3

Seems like it’s currently not possible: JSON API - Community Solid Server

If you want this feature, I’d suggest to ask in their github repository.

4

Ok thanks.

So does this mean that, currently, the only way you can delete a pod is by deleting your entire account or by removing the data related to that pod manually in the local .data directory?

5

That would appear to be the case. The maintainers in the github repo should be able to tell you more.

You can delete all the contents of a pod, and then remove it from your webID, but it doesn’t seem you can delete the pod itself right now.

6

Ok, maybe I will contact them but for the moment I can do it manually. Thanks for the info!