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OData/WebAPI DELETE for Product Category is returning 204 but the entity is not actually being deleting

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Posted on by tomhundley 15

I'm going crazy and can't figure this out. 

In Postman, I'm calling 

  • GET {{d365BaseUrl}}/data/ProductCategories(ProductCategoryHierarchyName='Physical Inventory',CategoryName='test4') -- This works just fine and returns the prodcut category
  • DELETE {{d365BaseUrl}}/data/ProductCategories(ProductCategoryHierarchyName='Physical Inventory',CategoryName='test4') -- Returns a 204 and I assume it's deleted
  • NOPE It's still there!  I've tried passing an empty body {} as I saw in a related post for CRM, but that didn't help at all.  This is D365 F&O / Supply Chain Management.

Deleting items with Postman works just fine for ProductsV2, but not for Product Categories.  I'm baffled.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom

  • tomhundley Profile Picture
    tomhundley 15 on at

    Update: Not that I really expected anything different, but using the Odata client in c# performs the exact same way.  I call delete and the data is still there:

        class Program
    {
        public static string ODataEntityPath = ClientConfiguration.Default.ActiveDirectoryResource   "/data";
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;
            Uri oDataUri = new Uri(ODataEntityPath, UriKind.Absolute);
            var context = new Resources(oDataUri);

            context.SendingRequest2  = new EventHandler(delegate (object sender, SendingRequest2EventArgs e)
                {
                    var authenticationHeader = OAuthHelper.GetAuthenticationHeader(useWebAppAuthentication: true);
                    e.RequestMessage.SetHeader(OAuthHelper.OAuthHeader, authenticationHeader);
                });


            var category = context.ProductCategories.AsEnumerable().SingleOrDefault(p => p.ProductCategoryHierarchyName == "Physical Inventory" && p.CategoryName == "test4");
            if (category == null)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("can't find category");
                Console.ReadLine();
                return;

            }

            context.DeleteObject(category);
            context.SaveChanges();

            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }

  • Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    Martin Dráb 240,744 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Can the category be deleted? Maybe it can't, because it's already used somewhere and deleting it would lead to inconsistent database.

  • tomhundley Profile Picture
    tomhundley 15 on at

    Yes it should be able to be deleted; there is nothing assigned to them.  And if that were the case, I'd hope for an HTTP status code other than success or no content/204.  Thanks for the thought though!

  • Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    Martin Dráb 240,744 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Can you please test your assumption that it should be able to get deleted?

  • tomhundley Profile Picture
    tomhundley 15 on at

    Really?  Yes, it's tested.  It's not an assumption.  The Product Categories can be deleted from the UI without issue.  

    The UI actually uses https://...Services/ReliableCommunicationManager.svc/ProcessMessages?cmp=abc&lng=en-us& instead of making a restful call, which I was hoping to see.  

    For whatever it's worth, the UI does prompt and ask if the user wants to check if the category is referenced by other documents.  I'm wondering if that has anything to do with it, perhaps there is another method/resource that needs to be called or pass something in the body stating that the delete operation is "confirmed", however, the documentation that I can find doesn't say anything of the sort.  And again, using both Postman and an OData client in c# return success statueses from the server, although it's not deleted.

  • Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    Martin Dráb 240,744 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Then I would debug the entity to see where things go wrong.

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