Attempting to delete attachment gives 405 error

[Jason Van]

Hey,

I've been trying to delete attachments by using the couchbase lite api but no luck and not sure what I am doing wrong.

I've been using postman to do this (I create attachments using postman and that works fine).

Heres what I do...

DELETE https://{domain}/{bucket}/{doc_id}/{attachment_name}?rev=1-SomeRevisionIdHere

Headers:

Content-Type: image/jpeg

I've also tried it adding the header If-Match: 1-SomeRevisionIdHere instead of the param rev in the url.

On the sync gateway side I see it getting hit..

22:58:16.647588 HTTP:  #035: DELETE /{bucket}/{doc_id}/{attachment_name}?rev=1-SomeRevisionIdHere

But on postman I get a 405 error and the body is..

{

error: "Method Not Allowed"

reason: ""

}

Also the attachment is not deleted.

Does any one have any idea what I am doing wrong?

Thanks!

Jason

[Jens Alfke]

I don't think we ever implemented the DELETE method for attachments.

Instead just GET the document, remove the attachment metadata from the _attachments property, and PUT it back.

—Jens

[Jason Van]

Hey Jens,

I was using DELETE method because it was indicated in the rest api. 

The way you just mentioned is way simpler, I just tried it out and worked like a charm, doesn't seem to have problems.

Thanks!

Jason

[Jens Alfke]

On Aug 18, 2014, at 7:59 PM, Jason Van <jason...@gmail.com> wrote:

I was using DELETE method because it was indicated in the rest api. 

A lot of the REST API docs are based on the CouchDB documentation, and unfortunately weren't checked to see whether Couchbase Lite actually implements each call. Sorry for the confusion.

—Jens