provide a means to remove data types that are obsolete

[elidana]

Trying to sort out some of the things that are currently blocking #82 and #83.
I need to remove from the db obsolete "bernese5" data (typeID = e, n, u)

The db is populated with some obsolete data (product of an old processing strategy) that can now be deleted.

Could please the following data be deleted ():
all typeID=e, n, u associated with the methodID=bernese5

These data are empty, as you can see from:

[elidana@rally ~]% curl -o temp "https://fits.geonet.org.nz/observation?networkID=LI&siteID=AUCK&typeID=e&methodID=bernese5"
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0    30    0    30    0     0     93      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   600

(e_rf, n_rf, u_rf stay for now)

ps. I had a quick look at fits-loader, and it doesn't seem to me there's a provision for the user to do such a thing (and it sounds quite reasonable)

Thanks!

[rumachan]

A facility to do this for 'authorised users' would be helpful. It would permit those users to better manage 'their' data without bothering others to do this for them.

I have just tried to use fits-loader --delete-first and an empty input files, but it doesn't like it. So we need something different.

[elidana]

Yes, I agree. Some more sudoers option for the db wouldn't be bad.
Could that be a further development of #87 ?

[mabznz]

Yes, this is definitely solved with with a writeable API for data. Adding to backlog but will look at deleting data when I get access.