DELETE for removing resources in Rest API - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to send a DELETE request to remove a user by ID.

Rest API

response = requests.[1]('https://api.example.com/users/123')

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Apost

Bget

Cdelete

Dput

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using GET instead of DELETE will only retrieve data, not remove it.

Using POST or PUT will not delete the resource.

The DELETE method is used to remove a resource from the server.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to check if the DELETE request was successful by verifying the status code.

Rest API

if response.status_code == [1]:
    print('Deleted successfully')

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A204

B404

C200

D500

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Checking for 200 instead of 204 might work but 204 is more common for DELETE success.

Checking for 404 or 500 means error states, not success.

Status code 204 means the server successfully processed the request and is not returning any content.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the code to correctly send a DELETE request with headers.

Rest API

headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer token123'}
response = requests.[1]('https://api.example.com/items/45', headers=headers)

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Aput

Bpost

Cget

Ddelete

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using POST or GET instead of DELETE will not remove the resource.

Forgetting to include headers when authorization is needed.

To delete a resource with headers, use the DELETE method with the headers parameter.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to create a function that deletes a resource by ID and returns True if successful.

Rest API

def delete_resource(resource_id):
    response = requests.[1](f'https://api.example.com/resources/{resource_id}')
    return response.status_code [2] 204

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Adelete

B==

C!=

Dget

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using GET instead of DELETE.

Checking status code with != instead of ==.

The function sends a DELETE request and checks if the status code equals 204 to confirm success.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to delete a user with authorization and handle errors properly.

Rest API

def delete_user(user_id, token):
    headers = {'Authorization': f'Bearer [1]'}
    response = requests.[2](f'https://api.example.com/users/{user_id}', headers=headers)
    if response.status_code == [3]:
        return True
    else:
        return False

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Atoken

Bdelete

C204

Dget

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using GET instead of DELETE.

Not passing the token correctly in headers.

Checking for wrong status code.

The function uses the token for authorization, sends a DELETE request, and checks for status code 204 to confirm deletion.