This API is out-of-date and may not be maintained in the future. Please use the API described in Batch Deleting Topics of a Kafka Instance.

This API is used to delete topics in a Kafka instance in batches.

POST /v1.0/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/topics/delete

Table 1 describes the parameter.

**Table 1** Parameters
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
project_id	String	Yes	Indicates the ID of a project.
instance_id	String	Yes	Indicates the instance ID.

Request parameters

Table 2 describes the parameter.

**Table 2** Request parameter
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
topics	Array	Yes	Indicates the list of topics to be deleted.

Example request

POST https://{dms_endpoint}/v1.0/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/topics/delete
{
  "topics" : ["hah", "aabb"]
 }

Response parameters

Table 3 describes the parameter.

**Table 3** Response parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
topics	Array	Indicates the list of topics.

**Table 4** topics parameter description
Parameter	Type	Description
id	String	Indicates the topic name.
success	Boolean	Indicates whether the topics are deleted.

Example response

{
  "topics" : [{
      "id" : "haha",
      "success" : true
    }, {
      "id" : "aabb",
      "success" : true
    }
  ]
}

Table 5 describes the status code of successful operations. For details about other status codes, see Status Code.

**Table 5** Status code
Status Code	Description
200	The topics are successfully deleted.

Deleting Topics in a Kafka Instance in Batches