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Cannot delete resources with spaces in public_id

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Andres De Jesus
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Hi, 

I am trying to delete an image with public Id : ..../courses/I%20am%20testing/images/course_preview_img.jpg

Why do I get not found:

{...
            "result": {
                "partial": false,
                "deleted": {
                    "courses/I%20am%20testing/videos/Cows": "not_found",
                    "courses/I%20am%20testing/images/course_preview_img": "not_found",
                    "courses/I%20am%20testing/images/coverPhoto": "not_found",
                    "courses/I%20am%20testing/images/profilePhoto": "not_found"
                },
                "rate_limit_allowed": 500,
                "rate_limit_remaining": 497,
                "deleted_counts": {
                    "courses/I%20am%20testing/videos/Cows": {
                        "derived": 0,
                        "original": 0
                    },
                    "courses/I%20am%20testing/images/course_preview_img": {
                        "derived": 0,
                        "original": 0
                    },
                    "courses/I%20am%20testing/images/coverPhoto": {
                        "derived": 0,
                        "original": 0
                    },
                    "courses/I%20am%20testing/images/profilePhoto": {
                        "derived": 0,
                        "original": 0
                    }
                },
                "rate_limit_reset_at": "2022-02-20T22:00:00.000Z"
            }
        }
    }
}

But when the resource id has no space it is found:

{...
            "result": {
                "partial": false,
                "deleted": {
                    "courses/Booga/videos/Sound": "not_found",
                    "courses/Booga/images/course_preview_img": "deleted",
                    "courses/Booga/images/profilePhoto": "deleted",
                    "courses/Booga/images/coverPhoto": "deleted"
                },
                "rate_limit_allowed": 500,
                "rate_limit_remaining": 495,
                "deleted_counts": {
                    "courses/Booga/videos/Sound": {
                        "derived": 0,
                        "original": 0
                    },
                    "courses/Booga/images/course_preview_img": {
                        "derived": 0,
                        "original": 1
                    },
                    "courses/Booga/images/profilePhoto": {
                        "derived": 0,
                        "original": 1
                    },
                    "courses/Booga/images/coverPhoto": {
                        "derived": 0,
                        "original": 1
                    }
                },
                "rate_limit_reset_at": "2022-02-20T22:00:00.000Z"
            }
        }
    }

Using 

cloudinary.v2.api.delete_resources

 

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    Eric Pasos

    Hi Andres,

    When using the Admin API delete_resources method, the public_id must not be encoded (i.e., for your case, use space character instead of %20). For example:

    cloudinary.api.delete_resources(
            ["courses/I am testing/videos/Cows",
             "courses/I am testing/images/course_preview_img",
             "courses/I am testing/images/coverPhoto",
             "courses/I am testing/images/profilePhoto"
            ],
    { type: 'upload' },
    function(error, result) {console.log(result, error); });
    Hope this helps. Thanks.
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