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How to delete Things with a specific tag from REST Api

emadar
5-Regular Member

How to delete Things with a specific tag from REST Api

My question is in the title !

I've been using REST Api in order to delete a specific entity, but I need to delete a group of things with the same tag, so how could I do that?

Thanks in advance!

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AdamR
12-Amethyst
(To:emadar)

Hi Elie,

The best way to do this is to create a custom service that you call from the REST Api and pass in the value of the tag (this can be a string value in the rest call).  You can convert this to a tag in the service, then search for things with that tag using the SearchThings service in the SearchFunctions resource.  Loop through the resulting infotable and delete the things.

Adam

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AdamR
12-Amethyst
(To:emadar)

Hi Elie,

The best way to do this is to create a custom service that you call from the REST Api and pass in the value of the tag (this can be a string value in the rest call).  You can convert this to a tag in the service, then search for things with that tag using the SearchThings service in the SearchFunctions resource.  Loop through the resulting infotable and delete the things.

Adam

emadar
5-Regular Member
(To:AdamR)

That is actually a really good idea! I'm not sure that this was what I was looking for but it should really help me anyways.

Thank you!

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