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Building RESTful Web services with Go
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Building RESTful Web services with Go

by Naren Yellavula
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
316 pages
6h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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DELETE and OPTIONS

The DELETE API method is used to delete a resource from the database. It is similar to PUT but without any body. It just needs an ID of the resource to be deleted. Once a resource gets deleted, subsequent GET requests return a 404 not found status. 

Responses to this method are not cacheable (in case caching is implemented)  because the DELETE method is idempotent.

The OPTIONS API method is the most underrated in the API development. Given the resource, this method tries to know all possible methods (GET, POST, and so on) defined on the server. It is like looking at the menu card at a restaurant and then ordering an item which is available (whereas if you randomly order a dish, the waiter will tell you it is not available). ...

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