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Deleting a branch using the API

Figaw

How do I use the DELETE endpoint of the REST API for branches?

https://developer.atlassian.com/static/rest/bitbucket-server/5.5.0/bitbucket-branch-rest.html

Looking at this, I'm supposed to send a request object with the DELETE, but DELETE doesn't support passing an object?

The endpoint should simply be a request to

/rest/branch-utils/1.0/projects/{projectKey}/repos/{repositorySlug}/branches?name=somebranch&dryRun=true

I don't know how you'll handle the /refs/head/- and forward slashes people use in their requests. But it seems wrong to imply that people should pass an object with their DELETE request.

Or do it like a POST request, to a

/rest/branch-utils/1.0/projects/{projectKey}/repos/{repositorySlug}/delete

With the object, with the name and dryRyn - that would work right out of the box. And the branch-target is inferred by the branch-utils in the beginning of the API.

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Caterina Curti

Hi Nicolaj,

The delete rest end point requires the ref to be specified as part of the input request, not in the URL itself.

If you expand the "Example request representations", you'll get an example json file:

{
    "name": "refs/heads/my-branch",
    "dryRun": false
}

Add this to your request to provide the input file:

-H<span> </span>"Content-Type: application/json" --data<span> </span>@input.json

Cheers,

Caterina

Cante Ibanez

how do we do this in postman? I have tried using the example with the json in the 'body' tab of postman and i am getting error 405 : Method Not Allowed

jredmond

Are you using Bitbucket Server or Bitbucket Cloud? This API is just for BB Server; there is no corresponding endpoint for BB Cloud.

Cante Ibanez

yes this is for the bitbucket server

Cante Ibanez

anyone? none?

Sundaranand Mahadevan

delete with a return code 204 worked:

https://stash.****.com/stash/rest/branch-utils/1.0/projects/{proj}/repos/{repo}/branches

the body must look like

{
"name": "refs/heads/{Name of the Branch}",
"dryRun": false
}

<span>Use Basic Auth in PostMan and provide your userId and Password<br>-H 'cache-control: no-cache' </span>-<span>H 'content-type: application/json'  </span>-<span>H 'x-atlassian-token: nocheck'</span>

Joris Guisson

I only get a 405 error when I try this API.

Happens both when I try to create a branch with a post or when I try to delete a branch.

Do you need to do anything special to use this API. Or was this API broken in some bitbucket server versions ?

Ovidiu Alexandru

Same issue for me, this api does not work on bitbucket server 6.8.0, I get 405 error. Trying to implement a similar functionality to "delete source branch after merging" tickbox when pull requests are merged. Is there any alternative to achieve this?