# Persona routes: update, delete

URL: /code/api/persona/records-update · Id: `page:code/api/persona/records-update`

> The Persona Verbs update, delete as api.sb routes, with inputs, result, refusals and an example.

Reference for [Persona](/business/nouns/persona), one group of [Persona routes](/code/api/persona).

### Persona.update
Changes the given properties of a Persona. [Verb page](/business/nouns/persona/update?interface=api).

```text
PATCH /{namespace}/personas/{id}
```

Path: `id`. Body, as JSON: the other inputs. Emits `Persona.updated`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Persona. |
| `job` | `text` | No | What they come to get done. |
| `from` | `string` | No | Lineage: the slot it compiles from, as `Hypothesis#<slot>@v<version>`. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `persona` | [Persona](/business/nouns/persona) | Yes | The Persona. |

**Refuses when**

| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
curl -X PATCH https://api.sb/leaseline.app/personas/persona_YdpO6wSexq \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"from":"Hypothesis#approach@v1"}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "persona": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/personas/persona_YdpO6wSexq",
    "$type": "Persona",
    "job": "Example job",
    "from": "Hypothesis#approach@v1"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG",
    "operation": "Persona.update",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG"
  }
}
```

### Persona.delete
Deletes a Persona: a soft delete that keeps its history, undone by `Thing.restore`. [Verb page](/business/nouns/persona/delete?interface=api).

```text
DELETE /{namespace}/personas/{id}
```

Path: `id`. Emits `Persona.deleted`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Persona. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `persona` | [Persona](/business/nouns/persona) | Yes | The Persona. |

**Refuses when**

| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
curl -X DELETE https://api.sb/leaseline.app/personas/persona_YdpO6wSexq \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY"
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "persona": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/personas/persona_YdpO6wSexq",
    "$type": "Persona",
    "job": "Example job"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG",
    "operation": "Persona.delete",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG"
  }
}
```