How do I create a REST call in SharePoint 2013 Designer to delete records from the Workflow History List?

Question

I use the Workflow History List for debugging and the option of turning on debugging for flows that are in production. I would however like a workflow that purges the records in this list based by the workflow Name. I have created a workflow and a Delete HTTP request, but can't get it to work. I can't find any documentation on how to do this. What I have is

 [%Workflow Context:Current Site URL%]/_api/lists/GetByTitle('Workflow 

History')?$select=Id as my String in my Call

I get the following response code:

response=PreconditionFailed

I think I'm getting it, but still don't know how to put the pieces together. My understanding now is that I create a HTTP Rest to select the IDs of each record. Then I have to follow it with two more HTTP requests one to get the item and the other to delete the item. It is these later two that I don't know how to do. Am I on the right track?

Answer 1

Change the Request like below.

[%Workflow Context:Current Site URL%]/_api/lists/GetByTitle('Workflow%20History')/item(1)

The following example shows how to delete a list item.

url: http://site url/_api/web/lists/GetByTitle('Test')/items(item id)
method: POST
headers:
     Authorization: "Bearer " + accessToken
     X-RequestDigest: form digest value
    "IF-MATCH": etag or "*"
    "X-HTTP-Method":"DELETE"

You can refer to the article below to do a POST request using REST API in SharePoint designer.

SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflows and POST REST API