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[pahunt]

I have looked through the MCWS documentation and cannot find a method that would allow me to delete podcasts. Have I missed something or if not would it be possible to add a method that would enable this?

Thanks

[pahunt]

Bump

[Matt]

Your request has been noted.  I can't say yet whether we'll add it soon or not.  It depends how deep the Podcast code for deletion is (I'm on break so can't look just yet).

Thanks.

[pahunt]

Thanks Matt

[Matt]

Next build:
NEW: Added the web service function MCWS/v1/Podcast/Delete to delete a Podcast by name.

[pahunt]

Thanks Matt, I'm really, really sorry but I'm hoping this means I can delete individual episodes and not podcast subscriptions, I've only just realised my original request may not have been clear on that

[Matt]

This erases the feed.

Individual files is a different ball of wax.  Do you have the key for the files you want to delete?

[pahunt]

So sorry Matt, really didn't mean to waste your time. Yes, I do have the key of the file to delete.

[Matt]

Next build:
NEW: Added MCWS/v1/File/Delete to remove a file from the library.

[pahunt]

Well that was quick!!! Thanks so much Matt and sorry again for the confusion.

[pahunt]

Just testing this now and I've found an issue I'm afraid. While I can successfully delete a podcast episode it puts the episode straight back into a "Queued" state and then automatically downloads it again.

[pahunt]

Matt, I don't know if you saw the issue I'm still having with this but it is very close to be just what I need

[Matt]

Just testing this now and I've found an issue I'm afraid. While I can successfully delete a podcast episode it puts the episode straight back into a "Queued" state and then automatically downloads it again.

It might do that if an episode is removed from the database.  I don't know how to stop that.

[Matt]

When I delete a file in a Podcast using the web service, it switches to "Deleted" in the Podcast view.  That seems perfect.

[pahunt]

You know what, it's working for me now too! I don't know what was going on the other day but it's fine now. Sorry for the false alarm.

[pahunt]

Just in case anyone ever gets the same issue, I've got to the bottom of what was going on. I was calling the MCWS method from a C# app using this code

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var webRequest = WebRequest.Create("http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/MCWS/v1/File/Delete?File=xxxxxxx");           
webRequest.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("xxxxxx", "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");
var response = webRequest.GetResponse();
What fixed it was to properly finish the request by adding this line

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response.Close();