Delete Queue

Important

This API is obsolete and retired as of 11/1/2021 and should no longer be used.

Deletes an existing queue. This operation removes all associated state, including messages in the queue.

Request

Method Request URI HTTP version
DELETE https://management.core.windows.net/{subscription ID}/services/ServiceBus/Namespaces/{Namespace}/Queues/{Queue Path} HTTP/1.1

Request Headers

The following table describes required and optional request headers.

Request Header Description
Namespace Management Endpoint url
x-ms-version 2012-03-01

Note that the request also requires a client certificate. This certificate must match the certificate you uploaded for that particular subscription.

Request Body

None.

Response

The response includes an HTTP status code and a set of response headers.

Response Codes

Note

If you create a queue with a name that contains special or encoded characters (for example, test?Name=value&, which gets encoded to test%3FName%3Dvalue%26), a (401) Unauthorized exception is generated.

Code Description
200 Queue deleted successfully. It doesn't mean that the queue is completely deleted upon the return of the API call. This code means that it's marked for deletion.
401 Authorization failure.
404 The specified queue doesn't exist.
500 Internal error.

For information about status codes, see Status and Error Codes.

Response Headers

None.

Response Body

None.