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Deletes an object and its metadata. Deletions are permanent if versioning is not enabled for the bucket, or if the generation parameter is used.
When this API is used to delete an object from a bucket with a soft delete policy, the object becomes soft deleted, and the softDeleteTime and hardDeleteTime properties are set on the object. This API cannot be used to permanently delete soft-deleted objects. Soft-deleted objects are permanently deleted according to their hardDeleteTime. Attempting to delete soft-deleted objects using this API results in a 404 Not Found error with the reason notFound.
The authenticated user must have the storage.objects.delete IAM permission to use this method.
DELETE https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/bucket/o/object
In addition to standard query parameters, the following query parameters apply to this method.
To see an example of how to include query parameters in a request, see the JSON API Overview page.
Parameters Parameter name Value Description Path parametersbucket string Name of the bucket in which the object resides. object string Name of the object. For information about how to URL encode object names to be path safe, see Encoding URI path parts. Optional query parameters generation long If present, permanently deletes a specific revision of this object (as opposed to the latest version, the default). ifGenerationMatch long Makes the operation conditional on whether the object's current generation matches the given value. Setting to 0 makes the operation succeed only if there are no live versions of the object. ifGenerationNotMatch long Makes the operation conditional on whether the object's current generation does not match the given value. If no live object exists, the precondition fails. Setting to 0 makes the operation succeed only if there is a live version of the object. ifMetagenerationMatch long Makes the operation conditional on whether the object's current metageneration matches the given value. ifMetagenerationNotMatch long Makes the operation conditional on whether the object's current metageneration does not match the given value. Request body
Do not supply a request body with this method.
ResponseIf successful, this method returns an empty response body.
For information about status and error codes returned by this API, see the reference page.
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