DeleteCategory - ApsaraVideo VOD - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Deletes a category and its subcategories.

Operation description

After you call this operation to delete a category, all subcategories including level 2 and level 3 categories are deleted at the same time. Exercise caution when you call this operation.
If you have classified specific media resources to a category, the category names labeled on these media resources are automatically deleted when you delete the category.

There is currently no authorization information disclosed in the API.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
CateId	long	Yes	The ID of the category. You can specify only one ID. You can use one of the following methods to obtain the ID: Log on to the ApsaraVideo VOD console. Choose Configuration Management > Media Management > Categories. On the Audio and Video / Image Category or Short Video Material Category tab, view the category ID. Obtain the category ID from the response to the AddCategory operation. Note If you specify the ID of a parent category, all subcategories under the parent category are deleted at the same time.	3300****

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
	object	The response parameters.
RequestId	string	The ID of the request.	25818875-5F78-4AF6-D7393642CA58****

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "25818875-5F78-4AF6-D7393642CA58****"
}

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

The following table describes the common errors that this operation can return.

Error code	Error message	HTTP status code	Description
InvalidCateId.NotFound	The CateId not exist.	404	The error message returned because the specified category ID does not exist.