6. Accessions

delete_accession implementation

This should look familar by now…

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

And our test in the if block

        # Test delete_accession
        print('Test delete_accession()')
        accession_id = int(input('Enter accession id to delete: '))
        result = delete_accession(api_url, auth_token, repo_id, accession_id)
        print('delete result', json.dumps(result, indent=4))

Full listing accession.py