how to delete account

HI Silviu. Yes, you can use that API, whether via REST, Widget, or in-process.

It is very important that you not call the stored procedures for user deletion or any other reason. This is unsupported and can result in inconsistent data.

I would still be one of telligent built-in SP. I still have one qustion, if I want to delete myself, how should I do it? or would this api call log me out as well?

I believe what Michael is saying, calling a SP directly bypasses other logic built into plugins and/or the platform that fire on the OnUserDelete/OnBeforeUserDelete type of events.  So you should use the APIs to do this to ensure everything stays in sync.

And My best guess is if you delete your own account, you would be logged out as the account would no longer exist.

Right. If you're connecting directly to the database and calling stored procedures or executing other calls, you can expect to see subsequent broken functionality and errors due to other state that is modified by the platform and kept in sync across servers other than just calls to stored procedures.

The correct way to do this is to only use the API, not DB.

As for logging out, you could simply redirect the browser to the logout page after your REST request completes (in the success handler).

Thanks you all for your responses. In the meantime I actually noticed that things are not as simple as they seem. It looks like if a user is a simple member he does not have the rights to actually delete himself, so I should write a plugin in order to do this, because there I can use the RunAsUser method 

            Apis<IUsers>().RunAsUser("admin", () =>
            {
                Apis<IUsers>().Delete(userOptions);
            });

Or is there a telligent ajax api for this? Another thing I want to check before deletion is if the user is not impersonated or anonymous. How can I check that for the current user?

Thanks you all for your responses. In the meantime I actually noticed that things are not as simple as they seem. It looks like if a user is a simple member he does not have the rights to actually delete himself, so I should write a plugin in order to do this, because there I can use the RunAsUser method 

            Apis<IUsers>().RunAsUser("admin", () =>
            {
                Apis<IUsers>().Delete(userOptions);
            });

Or is there a telligent ajax api for this? Another thing I want to check before deletion is if the user is not impersonated or anonymous. How can I check that for the current user?

There is a REST API to do this
https://community.telligent.com/community/10/w/api-documentation/61736/delete-user-rest-endpoint

Checking for impersonation is not really a valid check, impersonation is a state of being logged in, the user being deleted would never be in an impersonated state, and the caller is always the same user and by nature is always impersonating.

The user object has an IsSystemAccount property which encompasses the anonymous user.  That being said delete internally already does this check.

Thank you Patrick, if I want to delete my user but keep he's content and I set the DeleteAllContent parameter to true, should I also give a ReassignedUserId and ReassignedUsername ? or will the community create a user on the spot to preserve that content?

DeleteAllContent is permanent, it will be gone.  If you want to keep it under a different name then set a reassign user Id or name only