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HTTP DELETE

HTTP DELETE

Learn how to create action methods for deleting data via JSON Web APIs.

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DELETE

To implement HTTP DELETE, you will create an action method and call it DeleteUser(). It will take an id of type integer as an input parameter. You will locate and delete the record with id equal to the one passed as an argument.

Code snippet

C#
// DELETE: api/Users/5
[HttpDelete("{id}")]
public async Task<ActionResult<User>> DeleteUser(int id)
{
    var user = await _context.Users.FindAsync(id);
    if (user == null)
    {
        return NotFound();
    }
    _context.Users.Remove(user);
    await _context.SaveChangesAsync();
    return user;
}

Explanation

The method is annotated with [HttpDelete("{id}")]. This attribute tells the framework that this method is an HTTP DELETE ...