sample-delete.py

#!/usr/bin/python
#
# Copyright (C) 2011
#
# Douglas Schilling Landgraf <dougsland@redhat.com>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, version 2 of the License.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.

import urllib2
import base64
import sys

# Example
ADDR     = "192.168.123.176"
API_PORT = "8443"
USER     = "rhevm@ad.rhev3.com"
PASSWD   = "T0pSecreT!"

# Setting URL
URL      = "https://" + ADDR + ":" + API_PORT + "/api/datacenters/f66b9b1c-c428-474f-9966-74aab4b0447d"

request = urllib2.Request(URL)
print "Connecting to: " + URL

base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (USER, PASSWD)).strip()
request.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)
request.get_method = lambda: 'DELETE'

try:
        xmldata = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
except urllib2.URLError, e:
        print "Error: cannot connect to REST API: %s" % (e)
	print "Possible errors: "
        print "\t- Are you trying to remove an non existing item?"
        print "\t- Try to login using the same user/pass by the Admin Portal and check the error!"
        sys.exit(2)