Delete an Instance

To delete an instance, send an HTTP DELETE request on the instance resource or filtered collection.

On success, the returned HTML body contains the complete data of the deleted instance.

Caution: It is possible to delete all instances in a collection. Make sure you specify the instance ID or filter the collection.

Delete a defect
*** Request ***
DELETE /qcbin/api/domains/DEFAULT/projects/REST/defects/5 HTTP/1.1
Host: my-server:8080
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 0
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36
Origin: chrome-extension://cokgbflfommojglbmbpenpphppikmonn
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8
Accept: application/json
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,he;q=0.6
Cookie: JSESSIONID=1234567890;QCSession=1234567890; ALM_USER=1234567890; XSRF-TOKEN=1234567890; LWSSO_COOKIE_KEY=1234567890
*** Response ***
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 08:37:44 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 896
Server: Jetty(9.1.3.v20140225)
{
    "type": "defect",
    "has-change": null,
    "planned-closing-ver": null,
    "test-reference": null,
    "subject": null,
    "reproducible": null,
    "request-id": null,
    "request-server": null,
    "id": 5,
    "ver-stamp": 1,
    "has-others-linkage": "N",
    "description": "<html><body>\nRefuses to acknowledge her.\n</body></html>",
    "priority": "4-Very High",
    "name": "Willoughby disaffected with Marianne",
    "has-linkage": "N",
    "run-reference": null,
    "cycle-reference": null,
    "dev-comments": null,
    "creation-time": "2014-11-30",
    "to-mail": null,
    "request-note": null,
    "closing-version": null,
    "cycle-id": null,
    "detection-version": null,
    "last-modified": "2015-01-15 10:37:23",
    "status": null,
    "closing-date": null,
    "detected-in-rcyc": null,
    "detected-in-rel": null,
    "severity": "2-Medium",
    "attachment": null,
    "extended-reference": null,
    "estimated-fix-time": null,
    "project": null,
    "target-rel": null,
    "detected-by": "steves",
    "environment": null,
    "step-reference": null,
    "owner": null,
    "target-rcyc": null,
    "actual-fix-time": null,
    "request-type": null
}