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API Design Patterns
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API Design Patterns

by John J. Geewax
July 2021
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
14h 40m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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25 Soft deletion

This chapter covers

  • Soft-deletion and when it is useful
  • How to indicate that a resource is marked as deleted but not actually removed
  • Required modifications for standard methods for resources that support soft deletion
  • How to undelete soft-deleted resources
  • How to permanently remove (expunge) soft-deleted resources
  • Managing referential integrity

As we learned in chapter 7, the standard delete method has one goal: remove a resource from the API. However, in many scenarios this permanent removal of data (a so-called hard deletion) from the API is a bit too extreme. For the cases where we want the equivalent of our computer’s “recycle bin,” where a resource is marked as “deleted” but still recoverable in the case of a mistake, ...

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