JNUC2019 Lab Session J Deleting Things

Hands On, Real-time Classic API Using ruby-jss

Lab Session Contents - 9 - Deleting Things

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• Lets now delete the 5 computers we created for the lab

• There are two ways to delete API objects in ruby-jss

• If you already have a fetched instance of the object, you can just call its delete method

• Lets delete the computer we just fetched a moment ago

comp_to_check.delete
# => nil

• If you haven't fetched the thing yet, you can use the delete method on the class itself

• It takes an array of ids, which we happen to have already in group.member_ids

• This is faster because fetching an object can be slow

JSS::Computer.delete group.member_ids
# => [568]

• This method returns an array of the ids that it did not delete, because they didn't exist.

• In this case, thats the id of the individual one we just deleted above.

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