Statistical Unit

This API manages information related to tracking statistical units for financial reporting and allocations.

DELETE

Unit

Deletes (marks as inactive) a non-financial statistical unit.

Try it

Request URL

Request parameters

Parameter Required Type Description
unit_id Property is required integer

ID of the unit.

Request headers

Header Required Type Description
If-Match Property is required string

ETag of the Entity. The value should match the current ETag header value from the unit type GET request or it should be * for an unconditional update.
Bb-Api-Subscription-Key Property is required string Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile.
Authorization Property is required string OAuth 2.0 access token obtained from Blackbaud OAuth 2.0 Service. Supported grant types: Authorization code.

Response 200 OK

Returned when the operation successfully deleted the specified unit entity.

Response 404 Not Found

Returned when the requested unit is not found.

[
  {
    "message": "The entity could not be found.",
    "error_name": "NotFound",
    "error_code": 404,
    "raw_message": "The entity could not be found."
  }
]
{
  "type": "array",
  "items": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "message": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The message of the service error with any string arguments replaced.",
        "nullable": true
      },
      "error_name": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The name of the service error.",
        "nullable": true
      },
      "error_code": {
        "type": "integer",
        "description": "Code number of the service error.",
        "format": "int32"
      },
      "raw_message": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The raw message of the service error. This message may contain string replacement arguments (ie: {0}, {1}, etc) that map to the 'error_args' property and will be replaced when you get the full message from the 'message' property.",
        "nullable": true
      },
      "error_args": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "description": "A list of arguments to be replaced in the raw message. Useful for when the message needs to be localized.",
        "nullable": true
      }
    },
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "description": "Base service error contract."
  },
  "x-apim-inline": true
}

Response 412 Precondition Failed

Returned when the client provides an invalid entity tag in the If-Match header.

[
  {
    "message": "This record was modified by another user. Please try again.",
    "error_name": "Concurrency",
    "error_code": 412,
    "raw_message": "This record was modified by another user. Please try again."
  }
]
{
  "type": "array",
  "items": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "message": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The message of the service error with any string arguments replaced.",
        "nullable": true
      },
      "error_name": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The name of the service error.",
        "nullable": true
      },
      "error_code": {
        "type": "integer",
        "description": "Code number of the service error.",
        "format": "int32"
      },
      "raw_message": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The raw message of the service error. This message may contain string replacement arguments (ie: {0}, {1}, etc) that map to the 'error_args' property and will be replaced when you get the full message from the 'message' property.",
        "nullable": true
      },
      "error_args": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "description": "A list of arguments to be replaced in the raw message. Useful for when the message needs to be localized.",
        "nullable": true
      }
    },
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "description": "Base service error contract."
  },
  "x-apim-inline": true
}

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X DELETE "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/statistical-unit/v1/units/{unit_id}"
-H "If-Match: {if-match}"
-H "Bb-Api-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"
-H "Authorization: Bearer {access token}"
--data-ascii "{body}"

using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();
            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

            // Request headers
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.IfMatch.Add(EntityTagHeaderValue.Parse("{if-match}"));
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer {access token}");

            var uri = "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/statistical-unit/v1/units/{unit_id}?" + queryString;

            var response = await client.DeleteAsync(uri);
        }
    }
}
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

        try
        {
            URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/statistical-unit/v1/units/{unit_id}");


            URI uri = builder.build();
            HttpDelete request = new HttpDelete(uri);
            request.setHeader("If-Match", "{if-match}");
            request.setHeader("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
            request.setHeader("Authorization", "Bearer {access token}");

            // Request body
            StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
            request.setEntity(reqEntity);

            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            if (entity != null) 
            {
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity)); 
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>JSSample</title>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        var params = {
            // Request parameters
        };

        $.ajax({
            url: "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/statistical-unit/v1/units/{unit_id}?" + $.param(params),
            beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
                // Request headers
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("If-Match","{if-match}");
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Authorization","Bearer {access token}");
            },
            type: "DELETE",
            // Request body
            data: "{body}",
        })
        .done(function(data) {
            alert("success");
        })
        .fail(function() {
            alert("error");
        });
    });
</script>
</body>
</html>

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];

    NSString* path = @"https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/statistical-unit/v1/units/{unit_id}";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         // Request parameters
                         @"entities=true",
                      ];

    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];

    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"DELETE"];
    // Request headers
    [_request setValue:@"{if-match}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"If-Match"];
    [_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Bb-Api-Subscription-Key"];
    [_request setValue:@"Bearer {access token}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"];
    // Request body
    [_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

    if (nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);

        if (nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }

        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }

        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }

    [pool drain];

    return 0;
}

<?php
// This sample uses the PEAR HTTP client from http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request2
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/statistical-unit/v1/units/{unit_id}');
$url = $request->getUrl();

$headers = array(
    // Request headers
   'If-Match' => '{if-match}',
   'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
   'Authorization' => 'Bearer {access token}',
);

$request->setHeader($headers);

$parameters = array(
    // Request parameters
);

$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);

$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_DELETE);

// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");

try
{
    $response = $request->send();
    echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
    echo $ex;
}

?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'If-Match': '{if-match}',
    'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
    'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
})

try:
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
    conn.request("DELETE", "/statistical-unit/v1/units/{unit_id}?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'If-Match': '{if-match}',
    'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
    'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
})

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
    conn.request("DELETE", "/statistical-unit/v1/units/{unit_id}?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################
require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/statistical-unit/v1/units/{unit_id}')

request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(uri.request_uri)

# Request headers
request['If-Match'] = '{if-match}'
request['Bb-Api-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer {access token}'

# Request body
request.body = "{body}"

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body

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