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Ends a session, releasing server resources associated with it. This
asynchronously triggers the cancellation of any operations that are
running with this session.
For more information about retries and long-running operations, see
Understand connectors.
Arguments
Parameters
name
string
Required. The name of the session to delete.
Raised exceptions
Exceptions
ConnectionError
In case of a network problem (such as DNS failure or refused connection).
HttpError
If the response status is >= 400 (excluding 429 and 503).
TimeoutError
If a long-running operation takes longer to finish than the specified timeout limit.
TypeError
If an operation or function receives an argument of the wrong type.
ValueError
If an operation or function receives an argument of the right type but an inappropriate value. For example, a negative timeout.
Response
If successful, the response will be empty.
Subworkflow snippet
Some fields might be optional or required.
To identify required fields, refer to the API documentation.
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