Delete an Asset in Purview using REST API

Question

I have a service principle created and has an RBAC role of Purview Data Curator and Purview Data Source Administrator. I have referred the link https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/purview/tutorial-using-rest-apis#use-the-postman-client-to-call-the-rest-apis and configured my Postman setup.

I want to delete Assets which are present in Purview. what is the REST API URL for deleting the Assets in Purview and what will be the objects that should be passed in BODY and HEADER to delete an asset.

Answer 1

Hello @Sukumar Vinnakota ,

Thanks for question and using MS Q&A platform.

Steps to delete an Asset in Purview using REST API:

From this document, follow the steps to Use the Postman client to call the REST APIs.

Step1: Get Token

 POST https://login.microsoftonline.com/<your-tenant-id>/oauth2/token  

Step2: Delete an Entity

Note: In Authorization section, select TYPE as Bearer Token and paste the token which you copied in step1.

DELETE https://{{catalog_end_point}}/api/atlas/v2/entity/uniqueAttribute/type/<entity_type>?attr%3AqualifiedName=<entity_qualified_name>  

Hope this helps. Do let us know if you any further queries.

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