elasticsearch/docs/java-rest/high-level/security/delete-privileges.asciidoc

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:api: delete-privileges
:request: DeletePrivilegesRequest
:response: DeletePrivilegesResponse
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[id="{upid}-{api}"]
=== Delete Privileges API

This API can be used to delete application privileges.

[id="{upid}-{api}-request"]
==== Delete Application Privileges Request

A +{request}+ has two arguments

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-request]
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<1> the name of application
<2> the name(s) of the privileges to delete that belong to the given application

include::../execution.asciidoc[]

[id="{upid}-{api}-response"]
==== Delete Application Privileges Response

The returned +{response}+ allows to retrieve information about the executed
 operation as follows:

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-response]
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<1> the name of the application
<2> whether the given privilege was found and deleted