REST with Scala's Lift framework. Part 4 - DELETE

In my previous posts I described how to handle REST with Lift: GET, POST and PUT. Now it’s time for...

REST with Lift: DELETE

Delete is probably the most simple case. It only requires the object’s ID and it returns nothing (except for the HTTP code).

(I already did that with Spring 3.)

Retrieve the request

We are going to use DeleteRequest. For a more detailed description of this code, see the first post.

class Boot {
   def boot {
       // where to search snippet
       LiftRules.addToPackages("me.m1key")

       LiftRules.statelessDispatchTable.append {
           // ...
           case Req(List("rest", "dogs", dogId), _, DeleteRequest) =>
               () => DogsRestService.deleteDog(dogId)
       }
   }

}

Processing the request

This would normally be some sort of business logic...

    def deleteDog(dogId: String): Box[LiftResponse] = dogId match {
       case "1" => {
           Log.info("Deleting dog with ID: " + dogId)
           Full(OkResponse())
       }
       case _ => return Empty
   }

We return a Lift’s object - OkResponse.

Summary

It is no different (actually simpler) from the previous examples.

This completes the series! As said before, Spring 3 support is a lot better at this point, but we should wait to see what Lift 2.0 has to offer in this respect.

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