What is the right way to delete an IP or host?

[john2893]

    ip = IPAddress(
            address='192.168.3.10/32',
            dns_name='test.xyz.com'
    )
    my_obj1 = IPAddress.objects.get(dns_name='test.xyz.com')

    
   ================
   ip.delete()   -- Does not work. 
   my_obj1.delete() -- Does not work. 
   IPAddress.objects.filter(dns_name='test.xyz.com').delete()  -- Does not work. 

I know I'm missing something but just can't figure what it is. I want to do it right.
I just learnt from saving an IP also needs full_clean() before saving. So, I wanted to do the deleting clean and right

[jeremystretch]

ip = IPAddress(...) creates the instance but does not save it to the database. You can call ip.full_clean() to validate the instance and ip.save() to save it, after which calling ip.delete() will delete it from the database.

[john2893]

Thank you!

I did try ip.delete()
I get "ValueError: IPAddress object can't be deleted because its id attribute is set to None."

This IP and hostname does show in the netbox GUI

and in db:

netbox=> select id, address, status, role, assigned_object_id, dns_name, assigned_object_type_id from ipam_ipaddress where address='192.168.3.10/32';
  id       |   address       | status | role | assigned_object_id |       dns_name        | assigned_object_type_id 
-------+--------------+--------+------+--------------------+-----------------------+-------------------------
 16997 | 192.168.3.10 | active |      |                                  |  test.xyz.com          |                        
(1 row)

[candlerb]

If you create an brand new object but don't save it, then it's just a local object in RAM.

If you want to delete an object which is already in the database, then first read it in using find() or get(), and then delete it.

ip = IPAddress.objects.get(address='192.168.3.10/32')
ip.delete()

[john2893]

Thank you!

I had to restart netbox services and now it works.!