SendDeleteRequest

Description

Sends the HTTP DELETE request to the server and then gets the content of the server response. It does not parse the HTTP response code and content of the server response.

It is not recommended to use this method to process large data (20 MB or 100,000 data rows can be considered as large data based on our tests).

Applies to

RESTClient object

Syntax

objectname.SendDeleteRequest(string urlName{, string data }, ref string response)

Argument

Description

objectname

The name of the RESTClient object from which you want to send the request.

urlName

A string value specifying the URL.

data (optional)

A string value specifying the data to send.

If the user sets the encoding charset in the Content-Type request header, this function will encode the data with the specified charset; if charset is not specified, this function will encode the data in UTF-8 by default.

response

The content of the server response.

If RESTClient failed to send request or server provides no response, the response value is an empty string. If the response value is compressed as gzip, it will be automatically decompressed. Only gzip compression format is supported at this moment. If the server specified the Content-Type response header, and in which the encoding charset is specified, this function will encode the data with the specified charset; if charset is not specified, this function will encode the data in UTF-8 by default.


Return value

Integer. Returns 1 if the function succeeds and a negative value if an error occurs. If any argument's value is null, the method returns null.

1 -- Success

-1 -- General error

-2 -- Invalid URL

-3 -- Cannot connect to the Internet

-4 -- Timeout

-7 -- Failed to decompress data

-10 -- The token is invalid or has expired

-14 -- Code conversion failed

-15 -- Unsupported character set

Example

The following example deletes the current row in DataWindow via SendDeleteRequest.

RestClient lrc_P022
String ls_P022_Response
Integer li_P022_SendReturn,li_P022_GetTokenReturn
String ls_P022_Token

lrc_P022 = Create RestClient

//Sets the token parameters
TokenRequest ltreq_P022_Appeon
ltreq_P022_Appeon.tokenlocation = "https://demo.appeon.com/pb/identityserver/connect/token"
ltreq_P022_Appeon.method = "post"
ltreq_P022_Appeon.GrantType = "password"
ltreq_P022_Appeon.ClientId = "P0VRQ-ddHn/WWd6lcCNJbaO9ny-JCNHirDJkHNgZ0-M="
ltreq_P022_Appeon.ClientSecret = "K7gNU3sdo-OL0wNhqoVWhr3g6s1xYv72ol/pe/Unols=" 
ltreq_P022_Appeon.UserName = "TestUser"
ltreq_P022_Appeon.PassWord = "TestPassword"

//Gets token via RESTClient
li_P022_GetTokenReturn = lrc_P022.GetOauthtoken( ltreq_P022_Appeon, ls_P022_Token)
If li_P022_GetTokenReturn = 1 Then
 lrc_P022.SetRequestHeaders( "Content-Type:application/json;charset=UTF-8~r~nAccept-Encoding:gzip" )
 lrc_P022.SetOauthToken( ls_P022_Token ) //Sets the authentication
 //Gets data
 lrc_P022.Retrieve( dw_Data, "https://demo.appeon.com/PB/webapi_client/api/department/retrieve")
 If dw_Data.GetRow() > 0 Then
  li_P022_SendReturn = lrc_P022.SendDeleteRequest("https://demo.appeon.com/PB/webapi_client/api/department/DeleteByID/"+String(dw_Data.GetItemNumber(dw_Data.GetRow(),1)), ls_P022_Response)
   If li_P022_SendReturn <> 1 Or lrc_P022.GetResponseStatusCode() <> 200 Then
   //Checks if any error information
   End If
 //Finds out if data is deleted via https://demo.appeon.com/PB/webapi_client/api/department/retrieve
 lrc_P022.Retrieve( dw_Data, "https://demo.appeon.com/PB/webapi_client/api/department/retrieve")
 End If
Else
//Gets the token failure error
End If

See also

SendGetRequest

SendPostRequest

SendPutRequest

SendPatchRequest