What is a Delete REST API and how it deletes data from the servers?

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[@deepalitandale]

Delete is idempotent as resource is deleted the first time and unless it is created again state remains unchanged on server.

[@bigblast1226]

Thank you, well explained!🔥👍

[@hamsaganesh7675]

Learning so much about API, glad i found your channel, can you make more videos on API testing

[@tejasgosavi7395]

Delete is non-idempotent, because if we delete one entry in first time then if we try to do that again then we will get error
correct me if i am wrong.....

[@nicole.michael]

I agree - Delete is not Idempotent.

[@subee128]

Thank you very much

[@Selvakumar-jp8he]

Hi mam, All videos are informative in your channel and very helpful to learn more...Could you pls make a videos about Sidekiq concept.

[@janetkalu3064]

Thank you Yogita

[@AjayGosavi-dk9ze]

thank you ..u r so briliant.make more videos on springboot

[@khushaltrivedi9829]

Can you please let us know what would be beat practice when deleting multiple objects in 1 API call

[@abhishekkhandare4872]

I like to way to represent and teach.
Please post videos on web api and specially soap and rest .

[@SunShine-ge3yj]

SOFT delete was a new concept to me

[@sree562]

if we send delete request to delete particularrecord ,we get 204 no content right ??

[@yogeshyts]

can we delete multiple entry in single request?

[@nihalkashyap647]

Hi @yogita. Should not the HTTP status code in the response for a resource created be 201?

[@sudocode]

can be if no data has to be returned.

[@jay-rathod-01]

Hello why Rest is use more than graphql in industries even though graphql is better?

[@liveonyoutube5487]

Nice explanation!
Can you make video on error handling on server side with best practices?

[@sudocode]

Sure will try

[@ozmenta9444]

The video does provide some quality information. However you have mentioned at 0:58 that all delete responses should contain 200 as status code which isn't true actually. There can be a 204(suitable for operations without soft deletes) and in case where deletion of resource might not happen immediately(a scheduled operation) a 202 will be returned.

[@sudocode]

Those are both valid points Ozmenta. I have covered 202 in upcoming videos on async APIs

[@ducatidiavel9639]

What happens when you POST after doing a soft delete ?

[@kartikeyamishra3325]

There is one thing... If we want to have create unique index in table and if we soft delete an record and then we want to create same entry... Will we need to mark deleted item as non deleted or should we create a new entry ?

[@sudocode]

You create a new entry.

[@kartikeyamishra3325]

@@sudocode then in that particular case we would not be able to create unique index....this is very interesting problem because if you want to make sure that no duplicate entries are created then we generally make index unique but in this case we wont be able to do that....composite index taking isdelete flag won't suffice either....so my actual question is how to make sure that no duplicate records are being created when we are soft deleting the entries

[@alpanakushwaha9109]

​@@kartikeyamishra3325in that case, you can change the column "Deleted?" to false that was earlier true, and then add/modify the new information/data whatever you want to.. for that particular row... Hence maintain the uniqueness

[@pranavbhat29]

Since the delete request deletes the resource utomst once and after that it always returns a 404 without changing the state of the backend system. I would believe that DELETE is idempotent

[@truptideshmukh5592]

How to fo soft delete

[@nagavijaykumarprathi8531]

I'm not able to find code snipet links in description.
If you anyone find please share with me

[@sudocode]

Will update it soon.

[@nagavijaykumarprathi8531]

@@sudocode Thank you for your response.
Once updated please post on community or make a video regarding that.
Thank you

[@rasikapunde8887]

Could you please post here in comments the answer of the question asked - DELETE is idempotent or not? It would be great for a reference.

[@lakshminadhYenduri]

DELETE is not idempotent because on (1st attempt - will get 200) and on (2nd attempt - will get 404 because as it is already deleted not able find in DB) so here two return responses codes are different. Hence it is not idempotent.

[@sethunagakarthikm4022]

Could you please post a video on Redis.

[@sudocode]

In the pipeline!

[@pamudithajayasundara1259]

can you create a video series on distributed computing....

[@sudocode]

In pipeline!

[@manglesh0605]

please create a playlist for all these api videos

[@sudocode]

check the description

[@LegendaryINDIAN55]

how can a customer reset its api gaming account? is it possible? 😅🤣