Delete a project

Remove an existing project from your ConstructionOnline company account

 put https://api.constructiononline.com/api/Projects?id={id}&action=DELETE&projectInfo={projectInfo}

Occasionally, company projects become outdated or unneeded and no longer need to be stored in ConstructionOnline. This endpoint allows users to remove an existing project from their ConstructionOnline company account. To delete a project, users must know the unique numerical ID assigned to the project. This is stored in the property 'ID' for the specific project.

❗ As a safety precaution to avoid accidental deletion, users must enter the ID for the project in both the parameters 'id' and 'projectInfo'. If the ID is not included in both parameters, the deletion will not be successful.

Please note: deleting a project does not give your company another project start back. 

Requests

REQUIRED PARAMETERS

id: integer

  • Unique identifier for the project

projectInfo: JSON object

  • Must contain the ID for the project in the form of a key-value pair
  • Example: projectInfo={"id" : "1234567"}

Sample request URL:

  • https://api.constructiononline.com/api/Projects?id=1234567&action=DELETE&projectInfo={"id" : "1234567"}

Example requests in cURL, C#, Python, and JavaScript can be found below:

cURL

# replace {email} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
# {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
# {apikey} with your provided API key
# {id} with the project's ID
# {projectInfo} with the project's ID


curl -X PUT https://api.constructiononline.com/api/Projects?id={id}&action=DELETE&projectInfo={projectInfo} -u {email}:{password} -H 'APIKey:{apikey}'

C#

/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
           {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
         {apikey} with your provided API key
{id} with the project's ID
{projectInfo} with the project's ID */

public string MakeRequest(string endpoint, string payload) {
                string username = {username};
                string password = {password};
                string apiKey = {apikey};
                string response = "";
                var handler = new HttpClientHandler() { AutomaticDecompression = System.Net.DecompressionMethods.GZip };
                using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler)) {
                    client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://api.constructiononline.com");
                    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
                    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
                    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", System.Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes(username + ":" + password)));
                    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("APIKey", apiKey);
                    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");
                    HttpContent content = new StringContent(payload, System.Text.Encoding.UTF32, "application/json");
                    response = client.PutAsync(endpoint, content).Result.ToString();
                }
                return response;
            }

   MakeRequest("api/Projects?id={id}&action=DELETE&projectInfo={projectInfo}");

Python

#replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
#{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
#{apikey} with your provided API key
#{id} with the project's ID
#{projectInfo} with the project's ID

import base64, requests, json

   #Global Variables
    apikey = {apikey}
    username = {username}
    password = {password}

    #Functions
     def makeRequest(endpoint, payload):
           url = "https://api.constructiononline.com/" + endpoint
            userPass = username + ":" + password    
            headers = {
                    "APIKey": apikey,
                    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
                    "Authorization": "Basic " + base64.b64encode(userPass.encode()).decode(),
                }
                response = requests.request("PUT", url, headers=headers, data=payload)
                return json.dumps(json.loads(response.text), indent=2)   
           
#Main Program
print(makeRequest("api/Projects?id={id}&action=DELETE&projectInfo={projectInfo}"))

JavaScript

/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
           {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
           {apikey} with your provided API key
{id} with the project's ID
{contactInfo} with the project's ID */

 username = '{username}';
 password = '{password}';
 apikey = '{apikey}';

       function makeRequest(endpoint, payload) {
           auth = btoa('${username}:${password}');
           var myHeaders = new Headers();
           myHeaders.append("APIKey", apikey);
           myHeaders.append("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate, br");
           myHeaders.append("Authorization", "Basic ${auth}");
              var requestOptions = {
                    method: 'PUT',
                    body: '',
                    headers: myHeaders,
                    redirect: 'follow'
                };
                fetch("https://api.constructiononline.com/" + endpoint, requestOptions)
                    .then(response => response.text())
                    .then(result => console.log(result))
                    .catch(error => console.log('error', error));
                return response;
            };

    makeRequest("api/Projects?id={id}&action=DELETE&projectInfo={projectInfo}");

Responses

green 200: Success

A successful request will return an empty 200 response, signaling that the project was successfully removed. 

red 404: Error

The server was not able to locate the resource specified in the request. The ID may have been entered incorrectly or a project with the entered ID does not exist.

red 429: Error

The user has surpassed the request rate limit for the hour, day, week, or month.

 red 500: Error

There was an internal server error and the server was unable to complete the request.

 

Last updated: Dec 28, 2023