delete_rule

delete_rule(**kwargs)

Note

This is AWS WAF Classic documentation. For more information, see AWS WAF Classic in the developer guide.

For the latest version of AWS WAF , use the AWS WAFV2 API and see the AWS WAF Developer Guide. With the latest version, AWS WAF has a single set of endpoints for regional and global use.

Permanently deletes a Rule. You can't delete a Rule if it's still used in any WebACL objects or if it still includes any predicates, such as ByteMatchSet objects.

If you just want to remove a Rule from a WebACL , use UpdateWebACL.

To permanently delete a Rule from AWS WAF, perform the following steps:

• Update the Rule to remove predicates, if any. For more information, see UpdateRule.
• Use GetChangeToken to get the change token that you provide in the ChangeToken parameter of a DeleteRule request.
• Submit a DeleteRule request.

See also: AWS API Documentation

Request Syntax

response = client.delete_rule(
    RuleId='string',
    ChangeToken='string'
)

Parameters

• RuleId (string) --

  [REQUIRED]

  The RuleId of the Rule that you want to delete. RuleId is returned by CreateRule and by ListRules.

• ChangeToken (string) --

  [REQUIRED]

  The value returned by the most recent call to GetChangeToken.

Return type

dict

Returns

Response Syntax

{
    'ChangeToken': 'string'
}

Response Structure

• (dict) --

  • ChangeToken (string) --

    The ChangeToken that you used to submit the DeleteRule request. You can also use this value to query the status of the request. For more information, see GetChangeTokenStatus.

Exceptions

• WAF.Client.exceptions.WAFStaleDataException
• WAF.Client.exceptions.WAFInternalErrorException
• WAF.Client.exceptions.WAFInvalidAccountException
• WAF.Client.exceptions.WAFNonexistentItemException
• WAF.Client.exceptions.WAFReferencedItemException
• WAF.Client.exceptions.WAFNonEmptyEntityException
• WAF.Client.exceptions.WAFTagOperationException
• WAF.Client.exceptions.WAFTagOperationInternalErrorException

Examples

The following example deletes a rule with the ID WAFRule-1-Example.

response = client.delete_rule(
    ChangeToken='abcd12f2-46da-4fdb-b8d5-fbd4c466928f',
    RuleId='WAFRule-1-Example',
)

print(response)

Expected Output:

{
    'ChangeToken': 'abcd12f2-46da-4fdb-b8d5-fbd4c466928f',
    'ResponseMetadata': {
        '...': '...',
    },
}