Deleting users and groups

Deleting users and groups uses a similar pattern to the retrieval operations. For this you can use static methods provided by the AtlanUser and AtlanGroup classes.

All delete operations are permanent

All delete operations on users and groups are permanent, hard-deletes. There is no way to archive (soft-delete) users and groups.

Delete a group

1.3.3 1.0.0

For example, to delete a group:

Java Python Kotlin Raw REST API

AtlanGroup.delete("e79cb8eb-2bb6-4821-914c-f8dfd21fedc7"); // (1)

1. To delete a group, you must specify its GUID and can simply call the AtlanGroup.delete() method.

from pyatlan.client.atlan import AtlanClient

client = AtlanClient()
client.group.purge("e79cb8eb-2bb6-4821-914c-f8dfd21fedc7") # (1)

1. To delete a group, you must specify its GUID and can simply call the group.purge() method.

AtlanGroup.delete("e79cb8eb-2bb6-4821-914c-f8dfd21fedc7") // (1)

1. To delete a group, you must specify its GUID and can simply call the AtlanGroup.delete() method.

// (1)

1. All details are in the URL itself.

   Group ID in the URL

   Note that you must provide the unique ID (GUID) of the group to delete it.

Delete a user

Not currently allowed

Deleting users can have unintended knock-on impacts, such as causing workflows to fail or leaving behind dangling references. We therefore do not allow this to be done directly. If you need to delete users, please raise a support ticket.

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