Content enumeration and deletion from Nexus

nexus-deletion.md

Prerequisites

• You need an API key for the content service.
• You can't be on the VPN (because it blocks port 9000).
• It's helpful to have some kind of JSON formatter for your browser like this one for Chrome.
• A URL encoder of some kind. I personally use the escape-utils Atom package.

Listing content

Before deleting content in production, it's a good idea to make sure you know what you're about to delete. You can list the content IDs that are currently present in Nexus by visiting the /content/ endpoint:

https://developer.rackspace.com:9000/content/

List content IDs that begin with a specific base by providing a URL-encoded ?prefix= parameter, such as:

https://developer.rackspace.com:9000/content?prefix=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Frackerlabs%2Fdocs-dedicated-vcloud

Results are returned 100 at a time. You can paginate (awkwardly) by adding &pageNumber=2 to the end of the URL. The full documentation is in the content service README.

Deleting content

Delete individual envelopes by using curl to issue a DELETE request to the content service API, using the URL-encoded content ID:

export APIKEY="..."

curl -X DELETE -H "Authorization: deconst ${APIKEY}" \
  https://developer.rackspace.com:9000/content/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Frackerlabs%2Fdocs-dedicated-vcloud

(You can copy and paste the /content/... bit from the url key in the search results in your browser.)

To bulk delete all envelopes beneath a content ID base that you've removed or renamed, specify the ?prefix=true parameter:

export APIKEY="..."

curl -X DELETE -H "Authorization: deconst ${APIKEY}" \
  https://developer.rackspace.com:9000/content/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Frackerlabs%2Fdocs-dedicated-vcloud?prefix=true

The documentation for this endpoint is also in the content service README.