4. Repositories

The dangerous delete method

    def delete_repo(api_url, auth_token, repo_id):
        req = urllib.request.Request(
            url = api_url+'/repositories/'+str(repo_id),
            data = None,
            headers = {'X-ArchivesSpace-Session': auth_token},
            method = 'DELETE')
        try:
            response = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
        except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
            print(e.code)
            print(e.read())
            return None
        except urllib.error.URLError as e:
            print(e.reason())
            return None
        src = response.read().decode('utf-8')
        return json.JSONDecoder().decode(src)

Our test should look something like …

        # Test delete_repo
        print('Testing delete_repo()')
        repo_id = int(input('Repository numeric id to delete: '))
        result = delete_repo(api_url, auth_token, repo_id)
        print('Result is', json.dumps(result, indent=4))

Full listing repo.py