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Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift

You're reading from   Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift Develop full-stack web and native mobile applications using Swift and Vapor

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788625241
Length 356 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ankur Patel Ankur Patel
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Server Swift 2. Creating the Native App FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with Vapor 4. Configuring Providers, Fluent, and Databases 5. Building a REST API using Vapor 6. Consuming API in App 7. Creating Web Views and Middleware 8. Testing and CI 9. Deploying the App 10. Adding Authentication 11. Building a tvOS App 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Deleting a Shopping List


To delete a Shopping List is similar to adding. We need to define a new delete method on the Shopping List class. In that method, make a DELETE request to the /shopping_lists/:id endpoint where :id is the ID of our Shopping List model. We already have to delete implemented in our Table View Controller but we need to invoke this new delete method from our Table View Controller, and, on a successful DELETE request to our API server, we need to update the Table View by reloading it. To add the delete functionality, we need to follow these steps:

  1. Open the ShoppingList.swift file from our iOS project and add the following delete method to the class. In this method, we make the request by specifying the DELETE HTTP method and also pass the id of the Shopping List we want to delete in the URL. On completion, we call the onCompletion closure function passed as part of the delete method invocation:
func delete(onCompletion: @escaping () -> Void) {
  request(url: "/shopping_lists...
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