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Instructor: The last verb we'll discuss

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is the delete verb.

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The delete verb is used

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to surprisingly enough, delete resources.

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It should never be used to add

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or update or retrieve resources.

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And it almost always combined with parameters because

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if we want to delete a resource, we should probably

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tell the server which resource exactly we want to delete.

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And this info will come in the shape of parameters.

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Now, similar to the get verb

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the delete verb should not include body.

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So if you remember the four components of rest requests

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then with the delete verb

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there should be only three component, the method, the url

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and of course the headers.

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So again, note that the delete verb

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is quite similar to the get.

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So let's say a short demo of the delete verb.

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So again, we found ourselves

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in the Beceptor website, Mocking rules, create new rule.

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And here we are going to select the delete and API order.

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And let's say we want to delete order number 45

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and the status that we will return is order.

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Order 45 has been deleted.

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So what we expect to get when we will call this API is

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a status that confirms the order has actually been deleted.

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Great, so let's save it

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and go back to postman, modify here to delete.

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Let's add here, the 45.

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Now, as we mentioned earlier

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the delete request should not contain any body.

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So we'll select the none here like this

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and let's send the request.

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And as expected, we've got a status confirmation

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that order 45 has been deleted.

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So again, as you can see

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the delete verb is used quite similarly to the get verb

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and should not include any kind of body in the request.