Delete an Audit Entry (Log) for an Audit Application - Alfresco Content Services - 23.4 - 23.4 - Ready - Alfresco - external

Delete a single audit entry (log) for an audit application.

API Explorer URL: http://localhost:8080/api-explorer/#!/audit/deleteAuditEntry

See also: Delete Audit Entries (Logs) for an Audit Application

To delete an audit entry for an audit application you must have admin rights. What this means is that the user that is making the ReST call must be a member of the ALFRESCO_ADMINISTRATORS group.

To delete an audit entry (log) from an audit app the following DELETE call is used: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/audit-applications/{id}/audit-entries/{auditEntryId}

The audit application that you want to delete the audit entry from is identified with the id parameter. The audit entry that you want to delete is identified with the auditEntryId.

To demonstrate deleting a single audit entry we will fetch a few audit entries for a file node and then delete one of them.

Here is how to get all audit entries for a text file with Node id f0587f6b-f6ec-44ed-a7d2-db18865fd1db:

$ curl -X GET -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Authorization: Basic VElDS0VUXzA4ZWI3ZTJlMmMxNzk2NGNhNTFmMGYzMzE4NmNjMmZjOWQ1NmQ1OTM=' 'http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/f0587f6b-f6ec-44ed-a7d2-db18865fd1db/audit-entries' | jq  
% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   586    0   586    0     0  14650      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 14650
{
  "list": {
    "pagination": {
      "count": 3,
      "hasMoreItems": false,
      "totalItems": 3,
      "skipCount": 0,
      "maxItems": 100
    },
    "entries": [
      {
        "entry": {
          "createdAt": "2020-01-02T13:29:09.671+0000",
          "createdByUser": {
            "id": "test",
            "displayName": "Test User"
          },
          "auditApplicationId": "alfresco-access",
          "id": 26
        }
      },
      {
        "entry": {
          "createdAt": "2020-01-02T14:09:21.862+0000",
          "createdByUser": {
            "id": "test",
            "displayName": "Test User"
          },
          "auditApplicationId": "alfresco-access",
          "id": 51
        }
      },
      {
        "entry": {
          "createdAt": "2020-01-02T14:09:29.018+0000",
          "createdByUser": {
            "id": "test",
            "displayName": "Test User"
          },
          "auditApplicationId": "alfresco-access",
          "id": 52
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

To delete the audit entry with the id 26 from the audit application with id alfresco-access use the following DELETE call:

$ curl -X DELETE -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Authorization: Basic VElDS0VUXzA4ZWI3ZTJlMmMxNzk2NGNhNTFmMGYzMzE4NmNjMmZjOWQ1NmQ1OTM=' 'http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/audit-applications/alfresco-access/audit-entries/26' | jq
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-*   0

To verify that the audit entry has indeed been deleted we can get all the audit entries for the node again:

$ curl -X GET -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Authorization: Basic VElDS0VUXzA4ZWI3ZTJlMmMxNzk2NGNhNTFmMGYzMzE4NmNjMmZjOWQ1NmQ1OTM=' 'http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/f0587f6b-f6ec-44ed-a7d2-db18865fd1db/audit-entries' | jq
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   428    0   428    0     0   8230      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  8230
{
  "list": {
    "pagination": {
      "count": 2,
      "hasMoreItems": false,
      "totalItems": 2,
      "skipCount": 0,
      "maxItems": 100
    },
    "entries": [
      {
        "entry": {
          "createdAt": "2020-01-02T14:09:21.862+0000",
          "createdByUser": {
            "id": "test",
            "displayName": "Test User"
          },
          "auditApplicationId": "alfresco-access",
          "id": 51
        }
      },
      {
        "entry": {
          "createdAt": "2020-01-02T14:09:29.018+0000",
          "createdByUser": {
            "id": "test",
            "displayName": "Test User"
          },
          "auditApplicationId": "alfresco-access",
          "id": 52
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}