Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift

Deleting a record

If you want to delete a specific object, perform the following steps:

1. Use delete(id:) if you know the object's ID:

JournalItem.delete(id: 1) { error in  ...}

2. Sometimes, you may want to delete all the entries in the current table of your database. You can use deleteAll() to do so:

JournalItem.deleteAll { error in  ...}

3. The following, shows the route handler for deleting a record in the implementation of initializeJournalRoutes(app: App):

app.router.get("/journal/remove/:index?") { request, response, next in guard let index = request.parameters["index"] else { return try response.status(.badRequest).send("Missing entry index").end() } guard let idx = Int(index) else { return try response.status(.badRequest).send("Invalid ...