Does it consider bad practice to return the remaining of a collection after DELETE





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Assuming we have a rest api, and a collection (with maximum 15 items).
The client is issuing a DELETE of one of the items in the collection.
Is it consider bad practice to return the remaining items in the collection? Should the DELETE return always empty body? If it is not a bad practice, what is the right status code?



My main question is, having a list of items, I DELETE one, is it ok to return a list of the remaining items?










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    Assuming we have a rest api, and a collection (with maximum 15 items).
    The client is issuing a DELETE of one of the items in the collection.
    Is it consider bad practice to return the remaining items in the collection? Should the DELETE return always empty body? If it is not a bad practice, what is the right status code?



    My main question is, having a list of items, I DELETE one, is it ok to return a list of the remaining items?










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      Assuming we have a rest api, and a collection (with maximum 15 items).
      The client is issuing a DELETE of one of the items in the collection.
      Is it consider bad practice to return the remaining items in the collection? Should the DELETE return always empty body? If it is not a bad practice, what is the right status code?



      My main question is, having a list of items, I DELETE one, is it ok to return a list of the remaining items?










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      Assuming we have a rest api, and a collection (with maximum 15 items).
      The client is issuing a DELETE of one of the items in the collection.
      Is it consider bad practice to return the remaining items in the collection? Should the DELETE return always empty body? If it is not a bad practice, what is the right status code?



      My main question is, having a list of items, I DELETE one, is it ok to return a list of the remaining items?







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          As defined in RFC 7231:




          If a DELETE method is successfully applied, the origin server
          SHOULD send a 202 (Accepted) status code if the action will likely
          succeed but has not yet been enacted, a 204 (No Content) status
          code if the action has been enacted and no further information is
          to be supplied, or a 200 (OK) status code if the action has been
          enacted and the response message includes a representation
          describing the status.




          Mozilla has an example for it:



          HTTP/1.1 200 OK 
          Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:28:00 GMT

          <html>
          <body>
          <h1>File deleted.</h1>
          </body>
          </html>





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            The way I see it, if your collection is a resource in and of itself, then a DELETE should delete the entirety of the collection (not a part of it) in which case I'd return 200 OK upon successful deletion.



            If you want to DELETE one specific resource (not a collection), then delete that at its own URI and return 200 OK as well.



            Just don't usurp the DELETE to essentially update a collection.



            So no. Don't return the remainder of the collection. Return a status code.






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              As defined in RFC 7231:




              If a DELETE method is successfully applied, the origin server
              SHOULD send a 202 (Accepted) status code if the action will likely
              succeed but has not yet been enacted, a 204 (No Content) status
              code if the action has been enacted and no further information is
              to be supplied, or a 200 (OK) status code if the action has been
              enacted and the response message includes a representation
              describing the status.




              Mozilla has an example for it:



              HTTP/1.1 200 OK 
              Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:28:00 GMT

              <html>
              <body>
              <h1>File deleted.</h1>
              </body>
              </html>





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                As defined in RFC 7231:




                If a DELETE method is successfully applied, the origin server
                SHOULD send a 202 (Accepted) status code if the action will likely
                succeed but has not yet been enacted, a 204 (No Content) status
                code if the action has been enacted and no further information is
                to be supplied, or a 200 (OK) status code if the action has been
                enacted and the response message includes a representation
                describing the status.




                Mozilla has an example for it:



                HTTP/1.1 200 OK 
                Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:28:00 GMT

                <html>
                <body>
                <h1>File deleted.</h1>
                </body>
                </html>





                share|improve this answer


























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                  As defined in RFC 7231:




                  If a DELETE method is successfully applied, the origin server
                  SHOULD send a 202 (Accepted) status code if the action will likely
                  succeed but has not yet been enacted, a 204 (No Content) status
                  code if the action has been enacted and no further information is
                  to be supplied, or a 200 (OK) status code if the action has been
                  enacted and the response message includes a representation
                  describing the status.




                  Mozilla has an example for it:



                  HTTP/1.1 200 OK 
                  Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:28:00 GMT

                  <html>
                  <body>
                  <h1>File deleted.</h1>
                  </body>
                  </html>





                  share|improve this answer













                  As defined in RFC 7231:




                  If a DELETE method is successfully applied, the origin server
                  SHOULD send a 202 (Accepted) status code if the action will likely
                  succeed but has not yet been enacted, a 204 (No Content) status
                  code if the action has been enacted and no further information is
                  to be supplied, or a 200 (OK) status code if the action has been
                  enacted and the response message includes a representation
                  describing the status.




                  Mozilla has an example for it:



                  HTTP/1.1 200 OK 
                  Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:28:00 GMT

                  <html>
                  <body>
                  <h1>File deleted.</h1>
                  </body>
                  </html>






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                      The way I see it, if your collection is a resource in and of itself, then a DELETE should delete the entirety of the collection (not a part of it) in which case I'd return 200 OK upon successful deletion.



                      If you want to DELETE one specific resource (not a collection), then delete that at its own URI and return 200 OK as well.



                      Just don't usurp the DELETE to essentially update a collection.



                      So no. Don't return the remainder of the collection. Return a status code.






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                        The way I see it, if your collection is a resource in and of itself, then a DELETE should delete the entirety of the collection (not a part of it) in which case I'd return 200 OK upon successful deletion.



                        If you want to DELETE one specific resource (not a collection), then delete that at its own URI and return 200 OK as well.



                        Just don't usurp the DELETE to essentially update a collection.



                        So no. Don't return the remainder of the collection. Return a status code.






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                          The way I see it, if your collection is a resource in and of itself, then a DELETE should delete the entirety of the collection (not a part of it) in which case I'd return 200 OK upon successful deletion.



                          If you want to DELETE one specific resource (not a collection), then delete that at its own URI and return 200 OK as well.



                          Just don't usurp the DELETE to essentially update a collection.



                          So no. Don't return the remainder of the collection. Return a status code.






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                          The way I see it, if your collection is a resource in and of itself, then a DELETE should delete the entirety of the collection (not a part of it) in which case I'd return 200 OK upon successful deletion.



                          If you want to DELETE one specific resource (not a collection), then delete that at its own URI and return 200 OK as well.



                          Just don't usurp the DELETE to essentially update a collection.



                          So no. Don't return the remainder of the collection. Return a status code.







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