Delete a user

DELETEhttps://api.testingapis.com/api/xml/UserXML/delete/{id}Sign in to see this endpoint's URL

Deleting a seed user (101-104) returns the normal response but the seed stays.

Parameters 1

Name	Type	Description
`id`required	path · integer (int32)	User ID.

Responses

200: User deleted.
404: No user with that ID.

Example

Request

curl -X DELETE "https://api.testingapis.com/api/xml/UserXML/delete/1001" \
  -H "Accept: application/xml" \
  -H "X-TestingApis-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response200 OK

Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8

<Result xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><Message>User with ID 1001 deleted</Message></Result>

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api.testingapis.com

curl -X DELETE 'https://api.testingapis.com/api/xml/UserXML/delete/1001' \
  -H 'Accept: application/xml' \
  -H 'X-TestingApis-Key: YOUR_API_KEY'

const res = await fetch("https://api.testingapis.com/api/xml/UserXML/delete/1001", {
  method: "DELETE",
  headers: {
    "Accept": "application/xml",
    "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

const res = await fetch("https://api.testingapis.com/api/xml/UserXML/delete/1001", {
  method: "DELETE",
  headers: {
    "Accept": "application/xml",
    "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
});
const body: string = await res.text();
console.log(res.status, body);

import requests

res = requests.delete(
    "https://api.testingapis.com/api/xml/UserXML/delete/1001",
    headers={
        "Accept": "application/xml",
        "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    },
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)

using var client = new HttpClient();
using var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Delete, "https://api.testingapis.com/api/xml/UserXML/delete/1001");
request.Headers.TryAddWithoutValidation("Accept", "application/xml");
request.Headers.TryAddWithoutValidation("X-TestingApis-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY");
using var response = await client.SendAsync(request);
Console.WriteLine($"{(int)response.StatusCode} {await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync()}");

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder(URI.create("https://api.testingapis.com/api/xml/UserXML/delete/1001"))
                .header("Accept", "application/xml")
                .header("X-TestingApis-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
                .DELETE()
                .build();
        HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.statusCode() + " " + response.body());
    }
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, err := http.NewRequest("DELETE", "https://api.testingapis.com/api/xml/UserXML/delete/1001", nil)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/xml")
	req.Header.Set("X-TestingApis-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()
	data, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(res.StatusCode, string(data))
}

DELETEhttps://api.testingapis.com/api/xml/UserXML/delete/1001

Path

idrequiredinteger (int32)