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Deletes a comment. Try it now or see an example.

Request

HTTP request

DELETE https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files/fileId/comments/commentId

Parameters

Parameter name Value Description
Path parameters
commentId string The ID of the comment.
fileId string The ID of the file.

Authorization

This request allows authorization with at least one of the following scopes:

Scope
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file

Some scopes are restricted and require a security assessment for your app to use them. For more information, see the authentication and authorization page.

Request body

Do not supply a request body with this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns an empty response body.

Examples

Note: The code examples available for this method do not represent all supported programming languages (see the client libraries page for a list of supported languages).

Java

Uses the Java client library.

import com.google.api.services.drive.Drive;

import java.io.IOException;
// ...

public class MyClass {

  // ...

  /**
   * Remove a comment.
   *
   * @param service Drive API service instance.
   * @param fileId ID of the file to remove the comment for.
   * @param commentId ID of the comment to remove.
   */
  private static void removeComment(Drive service, String fileId,
      String commentId) {
    try {
      service.comments().delete(fileId, commentId).execute();
    } catch (IOException e) {
      System.out.println("An error occurred: " + e);
    }
  }

  // ...

}

.NET

Uses the .NET client library.

using Google.Apis.Drive.v2;
using Google.Apis.Drive.v2.Data;

using System.Net;
// ...

public class MyClass {

  // ...

  /// <summary>
  /// Remove a comment.
  /// </summary>
  /// <param name="service">Drive API service instance.</param>
  /// <param name="fileId">ID of the file to remove the comment for.</param>
  /// <param name="commentId">ID of the comment to remove.</param>
  public static void RemoveComment(DriveService service, String fileId,
      String commentId) {
    try {
      service.Comments.Delete(fileId, commentId).Execute();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      Console.WriteLine("An error occurred: " + e.Message);
    }
  }

  // ...

}

PHP

Uses the PHP client library.

/**
 * Remove a comment.
 *
 * @param Google_Service_Drive $service Drive API service instance.
 * @param String $fileId ID of the file to remove the comment for.
 * @param String $commentId ID of the comment to remove.
 */
function removeComment($service, $fileId, $commentId) {
  try {
    $service->comments->delete($fileId, $commentId);
  } catch (Exception $e) {
    print "An error occurred: " . $e->getMessage();
  }
}

Python

Uses the Python client library.

from apiclient import errors
# ...

def remove_comment(service, file_id, comment_id):
  """Remove a comment.

  Args:
    service: Drive API service instance.
    file_id: ID of the file to remove the comment for.
    comment_id: ID of the comment to remove.
  """
  try:
    service.comments().delete(
        fileId=file_id, commentId=comment_id).execute()
  except errors.HttpError, error:
    print 'An error occurred: %s' % error

JavaScript

Uses the JavaScript client library.

/**
 * Remove a comment.
 *
 * @param {String} fileId ID of the file to remove the comment for.
 * @param {String} commentId ID of the comment to remove.
 */
function removeComment(fileId, commentId) {
  var request = gapi.client.drive.comments.delete({
    'fileId': fileId,
    'commentId': commentId
  });
  request.execute(function(resp) { });
}

Try it!

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