Laravel API Rest

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I am trying to hit my destroy API below

Gives me an error

"Call to a member function delete() on null"

Please help

my route definition in web.php is `

Route::resource('posts', 'postcarController'); my controller code is as below

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\PostModell;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;

class postcarController extends Controller
{
   public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware('auth');
    }

   public function destroy($id)
    {
        //PostModel::where('id',$id)->delete();
         $post = PostModel::find($id);
        if($post!=null){
          $post->delete();
         return response()->json([
            'message' => 'book deleted',
        ], 200);
   }

   }
}

`I changed my url to http://127.0.0.1:8000/posts/3 appropriately and get error

The page has expired due to inactivity.

Please refresh and try again.

probably you don't have any record with that id, check your db record — Sohel0415
– Sohel0415, Commented Feb 4, 2018 at 7:02

Sohel0415 · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-04 07:16:24Z

2

Rather than fetching the record and then deleting it, you could do it with one line like -

PostModel::where('id',$id)->delete();

Or you could check if record exists with that id or not and than delete it -

$post = PostModel::find($id);
if($post!=null){
  $post->delete();
  return //your new response;
}

return //response with message that no record exits

edited Feb 4, 2018 at 7:16

answered Feb 4, 2018 at 7:04

Sohel0415

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Sohel0415 Over a year ago

@DENNISKITHINJI see my updated answer, it may help you

DENNIS KITHINJI Over a year ago

still the same error persist "Call to a member function delete() on null"

Sohel0415 Over a year ago

please share your controller code with route definition and did you really updated your code with my code as there is no way it could give such error

DENNIS KITHINJI Over a year ago

This is my route definition in web.php Route::resource('posts', 'postcarController');

Sohel0415 Over a year ago

please add this to your question with postcarController code

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