[ckan-dev] How to remove a field that is no longer valid

[Brown, Mathew GCPE:EX]

I’m going a bunch of edits to records using the ckanapi and one of them involves changing the ‘resource_status’ from ‘obsolete’ to ‘destroyed’. This means the ‘replacement_record’ field is no longer valid (though it was required when the status was obsolete). When I remove it using the highlighted line below, for some reason when I do a package_update, the field is still there.

Any idea how I remove a field from the record and then update the record?

Here’s my code

#use ckan api to modify record
demo = ckanapi.RemoteCKAN(domain,
   api_key)

action='package_update'

for rec in full_record_result_list:
try:
obj = rec['object_name']
if obj in obs_list:
rec['resource_status'] = 'destroyed'
if 'replacement_record' in rec:
rec.pop('replacement_record',None)
demo.call_action(action,rec)
except:
pass



Thanks!