Delete requests

Finally, in the following code we have the DELETE request, which is the simplest of the four supported methods. The main difference with the delete method is that it returns no content, which is the accepted standard with DELETE requests:

@jwt_required
def delete(self, post_id=None):
    if post_id:
        abort(400)
    post = Post.query.get(post_id)
    if not post:
        abort(404)
    if get_jwt_identity() != post.user_id:
        abort(401)
    db.session.delete(post)
    db.session.commit()
    return "", 204

Again, we can test using the following:

$ curl -X DELETE -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS"
http://localhost:5000/api/post/102

If everything is successfully deleted, you should receive a 204 status code and nothing should show up.

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