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The Folders API provides an organizational structure for SAS and external content. It can also be used for favorites folders or a history of objects accessed. The resources that are stored in folders (members) use a URI to point back to those resources. <H4><strong>Terminology:</strong></H4> <H4>folder</H4>
  <p> A virtual container for other folders, or any resource that can be represented
with a URI.</p> <H4>member</H4>
  <p> A resource contained in a folder. A member can itself be a folder, creating
a hierarchical structure for folders and subfolders. Members have two types: child and reference. A child member inherits authorizations from its container, and a given resource can be a child only in a single folder. Reference members do not inherit authorizations, and a resource can have many references in many different folders.


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The specified folder is deleted. If the folder is not empty, a recursive option can be specified to indicate a recursive delete. If the folder is not empty and no recursive option is present, an error response is returned. Any non-folder content is not deleted.


The identifier of a specific folder or one of the delegate strings @myFolder, @appDataFolder, @myHistory, @myFavorites, or @public.

folderId

recursive

Example of an error response from the service

Error

The request was invalid. The folder was not empty, and recursive=true was not specified.

The request could not be completed due to a conflict with the current state of the resource. The folder has children, and recursive=true was not specified, or the folder contains non-folder children.

Delete a folder

A collection of data sufficient to catalog a set of entities and relationships.

A metadata archive

A collection of ancestor entries that are returned from an ancestors request.

Ancestor Collection

An ancestor entry that is returned from an ancestor's request.

Ancestor Type

This is a base schema used to define paginated collections of resources. This base schema is extended by other schemas in APIs by adding an 'items' array property. These extensions define the application/vnd.sas.collection media type (version 2)

baseCollection

A representation of a delegate identifier that is recognized by the Folders API.

Delegate

Delegate Collection

The full representation of a folder object.

Folder

Folder Collection

Folder Schema

Folder Type

Folder Type Collection

A link to a related operation or resource.

Link

The full representation of a folder member.

Member

Member Collection

The schema for creating a new folder member.

Member Schema

Path

The summarized representation of a resource. Often used in collection responses when more specific details are not needed.

Resource Summary

The response from a pre-flight validation request. For APIs that support validation, the client can run operations (typically on resources in the `/commons/validation`) with `application/vnd.sas.validation+json` as the requested response type (via the `Accept:` request header). The service validates the request but does not execute the request, and returns this response to indicate whether the request was valid at the time it was made.

Status	Meaning	Description
204	No Content	The folder was deleted.
400	Bad Request	The request was invalid. The folder was not empty, and recursive=true was not specified.	Schema
404	Not Found	No folder exists at the requested path.	Schema
409	Conflict	The request could not be completed due to a conflict with the current state of the resource. The folder has children, and recursive=true was not specified, or the folder contains non-folder children.	Schema

Delete a folder

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