Deleting entities (using NGSIv2)

Entities can be deleted using DELETE /v2/entities/{id} (in case the entity id univocally identifies the entity) or DELETE /v2/entities/{id}?type={entityType} (in case the type is also needed to fully identify the entity).

You can also use the batch operation POST /op/update to remove entities, using actionType DELETE.

Deleting entities (using NGSIv1)

Apart from deleting individual attributes from a given entity, you can also delete an entire entity, including all its attributes and their corresponding metadata. In order to do so, the updateContext operation is used, with DELETE as actionType and with an empty list of attributes, as in the following example:

(curl localhost:1026/v1/updateContext -s -S --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --header 'Accept: application/json' -d @- | python -mjson.tool) <<EOF
{
    "contextElements": [
        {
            "type": "T",
            "isPattern": "false",
            "id": "E1"
        }
    ],
    "updateAction": "DELETE"
}
EOF

You can also use the following equivalent convenience operation:

curl localhost:1026/v1/contextEntities/E1 -s -S \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --header 'Accept: application/json' -X DELETE