Riak CS DELETE Bucket

The DELETE Bucket operation deletes the bucket specified in the URI.

Note

All objects in the bucket must be deleted before you can delete the bucket.

Requests

Request Syntax

DELETE / HTTP/1.1
Host: bucketname.data.riak.com
Date: date
Authorization: signature_value

Responses

DELETE Bucket uses only common response headers and doesn’t return any response elements.

Examples

Sample Request

The DELETE Bucket operation deletes the bucket name “projects”.

DELETE / HTTP/1.1
Host: projects.data.riak.com
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:47:15 +0000
Authorization: AWS QMUG3D7KP5OQZRDSQWB6:4Pb+A0YT4FhZYeqMdDhYls9f9AM=

Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:47:15 +0000
Connection: close
Server: MochiWeb/1.1 WebMachine/1.9.0 (someone had painted it blue)