How to Delete a Product?

vic · August 9, 2021, 3:03pm

How can I delete (or archive) a product? I am using the Hosted Invoice Ninja product.

I’m using PostMan to experiment with deleting Invoice Ninja products. I’m following the docs using this endpoint:

DELETE https://app.invoiceninja.com/api/v1/products/958

This returns Status 202 OK, but the Body of the response contains the Login page and the product is not deleted. A GET request returns this product (958) and shows it is not deleted or archived.

If I change this request to delete a client, it works. All I do is change the endpoint to clients/777 for example, without changing the headers or anything else, and the request works – the client is deleted.

Is there something wrong with the products endpoint? Am I doing something wrong in my request?

Thank you.

hillel · August 9, 2021, 3:30pm

I’m not sure, from the code it looks like it should work:

github.com

invoiceninja/invoiceninja/blob/master/app/Http/Controllers/ProductApiController.php#L187


     *     response=200,
     *     description="Deleted product",
     *      @SWG\Schema(type="object", @SWG\Items(ref="#/definitions/Product"))
     *   ),
     *   @SWG\Response(
     *     response="default",
     *     description="an ""unexpected"" error"
     *   )
     * )
     */
     public function destroy(UpdateProductRequest $request)
     {
         $product = $request->entity();


         $this->productRepo->delete($product);


         return $this->itemResponse($product);
     }
}

You may want to consider migrating to v5, the API is much more reliable.

vic · August 9, 2021, 5:12pm

So, what’s the base url for V5? I couldn’t find it on the site.

hillel · August 9, 2021, 5:54pm

The v5 URL is https://invoicing.co/api/v1/