URL encoded or space is not working in Company deletion

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Not able to DELETE company detail using Apigee Management API for deleting company detail from Apigee edge when the company name has space or the company name is URL encoded. Tried using Postman, cURL and using AzDo pipeline - same behavior, read timeout.

Has anyone faced this same issue before?

Any suggestion from Google team how can I proceed in this situation.

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Hi @Soma_Ghosh ,

This looks like an Apigee Edge backend/data issue, not a problem with Postman, cURL, or your pipeline.

Key points:

  • In Apigee monetization, company names should not contain spaces.
  • The UI shows a display name, but APIs use the internal company identifier.
  • If you’re using the display name (especially with spaces or URL encoding), DELETE can fail or hang.

What to do:

  1. Use the exact company name/ID from the API (GET companies), not the UI label.
  2. Ensure the company has no apps, developers, or keys attached.
  3. If the stored name itself contains spaces, treat it as invalid backend state (not just encoding issue).
  4. Raise a Google support ticket for manual cleanup if DELETE still times out.

Conclusion:

If both encoded and unencoded DELETE calls time out, it’s most likely a server-side issue requiring Google support intervention.

Try with %20 once:

If the company name is Acme Partners –> Acme%20Partners

But for monetization, Google’s Edge docs say company names must not contain spaces, so the safer check is to first fetch/list the company and use the exact canonical identifier returned by the API. The Edge docs also distinguish between UI-visible company info and API-managed identifiers under monetization workflows.

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