ZettelKasten part 7

This is a followup to a previous article, ZettelKasten Part 6

Delet this

Look who forgot to add a DELETE action to their API. Me.

Let's do this.

I'm going to make it a POST to /:id/delete.

  .post(['/', '/:id', '/:id/delete'], writeTransactionMiddleware, koaBody())

It needs the write transaction middleware and koaBody() like the others that make modifications

And then it also needs to get the zettel:

  .post('/:id/delete', getZettelMiddleware, async (ctx: Context) => {

And then we delete it.

    const transaction = ctx.graknTransaction;
    const zettel = ctx.zettel.asRemote(transaction);
    const serializedZettel = await serializeZettel(zettel, transaction)
    await zettel.delete();
    const success = await zettel.isDeleted();
    if (success) {
      ctx.body = {
        deleted: serializedZettel
      }
    } else {
      ctx.body = {
        error: "Could not delete zettel",
        zettel: serializeZettel(zettel, transaction)
      }
      ctx.status = 500;
    }

Make sure you capture what it was before you delete it!

The adventure continues in ZettelKasten Part 8