Delete a Person

To delete a person, your client application must send an HTTP DELETE request to the same URI that would be used to retrieve it (see Retrieve a Person). For example:

curl --include -u user:password -X DELETE \
> http://host-ip-address/webservice/escenic/person/20
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:12:00 GMT

If you're using curl, it's a good idea to specify --include with DELETE operations: curl will then output the response header returned from the web service as shown above, and you can verify whether or not the operation was successful:

A response code in the 2xx range indicates success.
A response code in the 4xx range means that you made an invalid edit and the server won’t accept your modification.
A response code in the 5xx range means there is a server error.

When you delete a person, the object is actually deleted from the database (unlike a content item, which is just transitioned to the state deleted.