restful way for deleting a bunch of items
- by keisimone
In wiki article for REST
it is indicated that if you use http://example.com/resources DELETE, that means you are deleting the entire collection.
If you use http://example.com/resources/7HOU57Y DELETE, that means you are deleting that element.
I am doing a WEBSITE, note NOT WEB SERVICE.
I have a list that has 1 checkbox for each item on the list. Once i select multiple items for deletion, i will allow users to press a button called DELETE SELECTION. If user presses the button, a js dialog box will popup asking user to confirm the deletion. if user confirms, all the items are deleted.
So how should i cater for deleting multiple items in a RESTFUL way?
NOTE, currently for DELETE in a webpage, what i do is i use FORM tag with POST as action but include a _method with the value DELETE since this is what was indicated by others in SO on how to do RESTful delete for webpage.
