How to delete a Type in Atlas?

[#1]

Hi all,

I'm doing some tests with Atlas Rest-API managing types, entities, etc. I've been able to create types, entities and delete entities... but what about delete a Type?. I've not found information about that...

Thanks!

[#2 · Accepted solution]

If you are on version 0.8.0 or later of Atlas (HDP 2.6 and up), the version 2.0 APIs support deleting a type via the a DELETE operation on the types/typededfs API:

DELETE /v2/types/typedefs (with JSON payload specifying the typedef to delete)

• http://atlas.apache.org/0.8.0-incubating/api/v2/index.html
• https://atlas.apache.org/0.8.1/api/v2/resource_TypesREST.html

The legacy (v1) API only supports GET, PUT and POST operations on types.

[#3]

Thanks William, I had seen those APIs but the first tests I did were unsuccessful... I'll insist.

I'll share the findings as soon as possible.

[#4]

If that's failing, keep in mind you won't be able to delete the type if there are entities in the typedef.

[#5]

Good deal - HTH!