Rest API method to delete page history

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Hello XWiki team & community,

I realized that there is a page that has 30k+ versions. :roll_eyes:
Cannot delete the entire page - GUI says ‘page deleted’ but nothing happens in fact.
Trying to delete via rest api throws an error: om.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number 3232 in 3: Exception while saving deleted document content.

I am only able to delete page versions via GUI, it’s 1700+ pages, so will be clicking “from-to-delete-yes” forever. Is there maybe an SQL query or undocumented Rest method I can use to clean up the history and them delete that page ?

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Found magic URL!!!

/bin/deleteversions/mypage2?form_token=[TOKEN]&rev1=2.3484&rev2=1.5535

its possible manually specify wide range of versions to remove
form token could be found from request body send when you normally remove one version via GUI

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Normally this url action should be documented at https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/DevGuide/Architecture/URL%20Architecture/Standard%20URL%20Format/ but it seems it’s lacking (was created in 2007 prior to this doc).

You don’t need the token, that’s only a CSRF protection. However, you need to pass the confirm query string param.

As in:

/bin/deleteversions/mypage2?confirm&rev1=2.3484&rev2=1.5535

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Thanks Vincent,

I managed to delete all versions, then GUI removed the page itself with no issues.
But it would be great to have a possibility to clean up page history via RestAPI.

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Cool.

Note this snippet which does something slighty similar: https://snippets.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Delete%20Revisions%20From%20Author

I agree that it’s missing. You could create an issue at Loading...

Thanks