Rocket.chat: Add Channel Delete REST api Method to the docs

[jpotts-IIL]

Rocket.Chat Version: 0.57.1
Running Instances: 1
DB Replicaset OpLog:
Node Version: 4.8.1

I am trying to delete a channel that was created, but cant seem to find a way to do it. The only way I have found in the docs is to use the Realtime API, but it is a little unclear about how to set this up. Is there another way to delete a channel, such as the Rest API at all? If not what steps do I need to take to setup the Realtime API?

Thanks.

[localguru]

Via Administration / Rooms

Inside the channel

[jpotts-IIL]

Is it possible to accomplish this with the REST API?

[MartinSchoeler]

@graywolf336 Do we have a api method for deleting channels?

[graywolf336]

@MartinSchoeler Best place to look is the documentation and the code for the rest api: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/tree/develop/packages/rocketchat-api/server/v1 https://rocket.chat/docs/developer-guides/rest-api/channels if you can't find it in either of those places, then it would appear not.

[localguru]

Have you tried "channels.delete"? Looking into "packages/rocketchat-api/server/v1/channels.js" there is a "channels.delete" possibility. Seems that the documentation for channels is not up to date. But I haven't tested it.

https://rocket.chat/docs/developer-guides/rest-api/channels

[localguru]

@jpotts-IIL just a quick test. This works with public channels, but not private rooms:

get token

curl https://your-rocket-chat/api/v1/login -d "username=yourusername&password=yourpass"

delete public channel

curl -H "X-Auth-Token: yourtoken" -H "X-User-Id: youruserid" \
-H "Content-type:application/json"  \
https://your-rocket-chat/api/v1/channels.delete -d '{ "roomName": "test1234" }'

Tested with 0.57.1. Anybody knows why it's not possible to delete a private rooms, even if logged in as admin.

[MartinSchoeler]

@localguru For deleting private groups you have to use the groups methods https://rocket.chat/docs/developer-guides/rest-api/groups instead of the channel ones.

We need to add the delete api call to the docs, will change the title to reflect that

[graywolf336]

Closing this as you can delete groups and channels, however we are happy to accept pull requests on the documentation repository for adding these. I would advise a new issue be created on the documentation repository for this. https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Docs