Delete attachment

• 8/12/2019
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Delete an attachment from a calendar event, mail message, or group post.

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

• If accessing attachments in messages: Mail.ReadWrite.
• If accessing attachments in events: Calendars.ReadWrite.
• If accessing attachments in group posts: Group.ReadWrite.All.

HTTP request

Attachments for an event in the user's or group's default calendar.

DELETE /me/events/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/events/{id}/attachments/{id}

DELETE /me/calendar/{id}/events/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendar/events/{id}/attachments/{id}

Attachments for an event in a calendar belonging to the user's default calendarGroup.

DELETE /me/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/attachments/{id}

DELETE /me/calendargroup/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendargroup/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/attachments/{id}

Attachments for an event in a calendar belonging to a user's calendarGroup.

DELETE /me/calendargroups/{id}/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendargroups/{id}/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/attachments/{id}

Attachments for a message in a user's mailbox.

DELETE /me/messages/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/messages/{id}/attachments/{id}

Attachments for a message contained in a top level mailFolder in a user's mailbox.

DELETE /me/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}/attachments/{id}

Attachments for a message contained in a child folder of a mailFolder in a user's mailbox. The example below shows one level of nesting, but a message can be located in a child of a child and so on.

DELETE /me/mailFolders/{id}/childFolders/{id}/.../messages/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/mailFolders/{id}/childFolders/{id}/messages/{id}/attachments/{id}

Attachments for a post in a thread belonging to a conversation of a group.

DELETE /groups/{id}/threads/{id}/posts/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /groups/{id}/conversations/{id}/threads/{id}/posts/{id}/attachments/{id}

Request headers

Request body

Do not supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns 204 No Content response code. It does not return anything in the response body.

Example

Request

Here is an example of the request to delete an attachment on an event.

DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/events/{id}/attachments/{id}

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient( authProvider );

await graphClient.Me.Events["{id}"].Attachments["{id}"]
	.Request()
	.DeleteAsync();

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let res = await client.api('/me/events/{id}/attachments/{id}')
	.delete();

MSHTTPClient *httpClient = [MSClientFactory createHTTPClientWithAuthenticationProvider:authenticationProvider];

NSString *MSGraphBaseURL = @"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/";
NSMutableURLRequest *urlRequest = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[MSGraphBaseURL stringByAppendingString:@"/me/events/{id}/attachments/{id}"]]];
[urlRequest setHTTPMethod:@"DELETE"];

MSURLSessionDataTask *meDataTask = [httpClient dataTaskWithRequest:urlRequest 
	completionHandler: ^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *nserror) {

		//Request Completed

}];

[meDataTask execute];

IGraphServiceClient graphClient = GraphServiceClient.builder().authenticationProvider( authProvider ).buildClient();

graphClient.me().events("{id}").attachments("{id}")
	.buildRequest()
	.delete();

Response

Here is an example of the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content