Deletes a category and its subcategories.
Operation description
- After you call this operation to delete a category, all subcategories including level 2 and level 3 categories are deleted at the same time. Exercise caution when you call this operation.
- If you have classified specific media resources to a category, the category names labeled on these media resources are automatically deleted when you delete the category.
Debugging
Authorization information
The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:
- Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
- Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
- Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level,
All Resourcesis used in the Resource type column of the operation.
- Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
- Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
| Operation | Access level | Resource type | Condition key | Associated operation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vod:DeleteCategory | *All Resources * |
| none |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CateId | long | Yes | The ID of the category. You can specify only one ID. You can use one of the following methods to obtain the ID:
Note
If you specify the ID of a parent category, all subcategories under the parent category are deleted at the same time.
| 3300**** |
Response parameters
Examples
Sample success responses
JSONformat
{
"RequestId": "25818875-5F78-4AF6-D7393642CA58****"
}Error codes
For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.