Delete a credential configuration

Last update: 2023-09-29
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API endpoint: platform.adobe.io/data/core/activation/authoring/credentials

This page exemplifies the API request and payload that you can use to delete a credential configuration using the /authoring/credentials API endpoint.

When to use the /credentials API endpoint

IMPORTANT

In most cases, you do not need to use the /credentials API endpoint. Instead, you can configure the authentication information for your destination via the customerAuthenticationConfigurations parameters of the /destinations endpoint.

Read Customer authentication configuration for detailed information on the supported authentication types.

Use this API endpoint to create a credential configuration only if there is a global authentication system between Adobe and your destination platform, and the Platform customer does not need to provide any authentication credentials to connect to your destination. In this case, you must create a credential configuration using the /credentials API endpoint.

When using a global authentication system, you must set "authenticationRule":"PLATFORM_AUTHENTICATION" in the destination delivery configuration, when creating a new destination configuration.

IMPORTANT

All parameter names and values supported by Destination SDK are case sensitive. To avoid case sensitivity errors, please use the parameters names and values exactly as shown in the documentation.

Getting started with credentials API operations

Before continuing, please review the getting started guide for important information that you need to know in order to successfully make calls to the API, including how to obtain the required destination authoring permission and required headers.

Delete a credential configuration

You can delete an existing credential configuration by making a DELETE request to the /authoring/credentials endpoint with the {INSTANCE_ID}of the credential configuration that you want to delete.

To obtain an existing destination configuration and its corresponding {INSTANCE_ID}, see the article about retrieving a credential configuration.

API format

DELETE /authoring/credentials/{INSTANCE_ID}
Parameter Description
{INSTANCE_ID} The ID of the credential configuration you want to delete.

The following request deletes a credential configuration defined by the {INSTANCE_ID} parameter.

 Request
curl -X DELETE https://platform.adobe.io/data/core/activation/authoring/credentials/{INSTANCE_ID} \
 -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
 -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
 -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
 -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
 Response

A successful response returns HTTP status 200 along with an empty HTTP response.

API error handling

Destination SDK API endpoints follow the general Experience Platform API error message principles. Refer to API status codes and request header errors in the Platform troubleshooting guide.

Next steps

After reading this document, you now know how to delete a credential configuration using the /authoring/credentials API endpoint. Read how to use Destination SDK to configure your destination to understand where this step fits into the process of configuring your destination.

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