Parents: delete

Request

HTTP request

DELETE https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files/fileId/parents/parentId

Parameters

Authorization

This request requires authorization with at least one of the following scopes:

Some scopes are restricted and require a security assessment for your app to use them. For more information, see the authentication and authorization page.

Request body

Do not supply a request body with this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns an empty response body.

Examples

Note: The code examples available for this method do not represent all supported programming languages (see the client libraries page for a list of supported languages).

import com.google.api.services.drive.Drive;

import java.io.IOException;
// ...

public class MyClass {

  // ...

  /**
   * Remove a file from a folder.
   *
   * @param service Drive API service instance.
   * @param folderId ID of the folder to remove the file from.
   * @param fileId ID of the file to remove from the folder.
   */
  private static void removeFileFromFolder(Drive service, String folderId,
      String fileId) {
    try {
      service.parents().delete(fileId, folderId).execute();
    } catch (IOException e) {
      System.out.println("An error occurred: " + e);
    }
  }

  // ...

}

using Google.Apis.Drive.v2;
using Google.Apis.Drive.v2.Data;

using System.Net;
// ...

public class MyClass {

  // ...

  /// <summary>
  /// Remove a file from a folder.
  /// </summary>
  /// <param name="service">Drive API service instance.</param>
  /// <param name="folderId">ID of the folder to remove the file from.</param>
  /// <param name="fileId">ID of the file to remove from the folder.</param>
  public static void RemoveFileFromFolder(DriveService service,
      String folderId, String fileId) {
    try {
      service.Parents.Delete(fileId, folderId).Execute();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      Console.WriteLine("An error occurred: " + e.Message);
    }
  }

  // ...
}

/**
 * Remove a file from a folder.
 *
 * @param Google_Service_Drive $service Drive API service instance.
 * @param String $folderId ID of the folder to remove the file from.
 * @param String $fileId ID of the file to remove from the folder.
 */
function removeFileFromFolder($service, $folderId, $fileId) {
  try {
    $service->parents->delete($fileId, $folderId);
  } catch (Exception $e) {
    print "An error occurred: " . $e->getMessage();
  }
}

from apiclient import errors
# ...

def remove_file_from_folder(service, folder_id, file_id):
  """Remove a file from a folder.

  Args:
    service: Drive API service instance.
    folder_id: ID of the folder to remove the file from.
    file_id: ID of the file to remove from the folder.
  """
  try:
    service.parents().delete(fileId=file_id, parentId=folder_id).execute()
  except errors.HttpError, error:
    print 'An error occurred: %s' % error

/**
 * Remove a file from a folder.
 *
 * @param {String} folderId ID of the folder to remove the file from.
 * @param {String} fileId ID of the file to remove from the folder.
 */
function removeFileFromFolder(folderId, fileId) {
  var request = gapi.client.drive.parents.delete({
    'parentId': folderId,
    'fileId': fileId
  });
  request.execute(function(resp) { });
}

import (
  "google.golang.org/drive/v2"
  "fmt"
)

// RemoveParentFromFile removes the given file from the given folder
func RemoveParentFromFile(d *drive.Service, folderId string, fileId string) error {
  err := d.Parents.Delete(fileId, folderId).Do()
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Printf("An error occurred: %v\n", err)
    return err
  }
  return nil
}

#import "GTLDrive.h"
// ...

+ (void)removeFileFromFolderWithService:(GTLServiceDrive *)service
                               folderId:(NSString *)folderId
                                 fileId:(NSString *)fileId {
  GTLQueryDrive *query =
    [GTLQueryDrive queryForParentsDeleteWithFileId:fileId parentId:folderId];
  // queryTicket can be used to track the status of the request.
  GTLServiceTicket *queryTicket =
    [service executeQuery:query
        completionHandler:^(GTLServiceTicket *ticket, id object,
                            NSError *error) {
          if (error != nil) {
            NSLog(@"An error occurred: %@", error);
          }
        }];
}

// ...

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