How to delete Jenkins jobs using remote access API

This is why proper API documentation and proper status code is important 😀😀😀

Spend half an hour trying to figure out how to delete a #Jenkins #job using “Jenkins remote access API” 😩 😤 😮 😱

You can access all the methods support for an endpoint say for the below job:

https://<Jenkins_url>/job/<job_name>

at : 👇

https://<Jenkins_url>/job/<job_name>/api

The documentation at this endpoint says, to programmatically delete a job, just do DELETE to “This URL”, which on clicking takes us to: 😖 😫 😩👇

https://<Jenkins_url>/job/<job_name>/

so I tried #DELETE method on : 😑 😒 👇

https://<Jenkins_url>/job/<job_name>

And guess what we get status #200 but the job never gets deleted after playing around for half an hour by reading many answers online and inspecting the #network tab when you do delete from UI. I identified the below endpoint to do this: 📌 📍 📌 📍 🚩

https://<Jenkins_url>/job/<job_name>/doDelete

But was still wondering why the documentation was wrong !!! so gave a last try of adding the front slash as per the URL opened up in the browser: 🙏🙏

DELETE https://<Jenkins_url>/job/<job_name>/

Guess what !!!!! 💰 💰 I got a status code #204 and JOB got deleted !!!! 😂 😃 😄 😅

so note: front slash is important if you are playing with Jenkins remote access API 😂 😃 😄 😅

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