Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go

Completing and Deleting Items

Let’s complete the application functionality by adding the two missing features: the complete command to mark an item as done and the del command to delete an item from the list.

According to the to-do REST API requirements, to complete an item you must send an HTTP PATCH request to the endpoint /todo/id?complete, where id is an integer number representing the item in the list. To delete an item from the list, send an HTTP DELETE request to the endpoint /todo/id, where id is again a number that represents the item. For more information on this API’s requirements, see Table 1, ​To-Do REST API Operations​.

To send those requests, you’ll reuse the function sendRequest you implemented for the add command in ​Adding ...