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Cloud Native Python
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Cloud Native Python

by Manish Sethi
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
374 pages
8h
English
Packt Publishing
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DELETE api/v1/users

This API deletes a specific user from the users list.

In this case, we will modify the del_user(del_user) method to delete a user from the MongoDB users collection as follows:

    def del_user(del_user): 
     db = connection.cloud_native.users 
    api_list = [] 
    for i in db.find({'username':del_user}): 
       api_list.append(str(i)) 
 
     if api_list == []: 
       abort(404) 
    else: 
      db.remove({"username":del_user}) 
      return "Success" 

Let's test it out over POSTMAN and see if the response is as expected:

Now that we've deleted one user, let's see if it made any changes in the overall users list:

Great! We have made changes in all the RESTful API URLs for ...

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