I am using Jersey Restful webservices. I have below web method to get the results.
@Path("/persons") public class PersonWS { private final static Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(PersonWS.class); @Autowired private PersonService personService; @GET @Path("/{id}") @Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_XML}) public Person fetchPerson(@PathParam("id") Integer id) { return personService.fetchPerson(id); } }
Similarly how can i write a webmethod to delete a resource by id ?
Thanks!
You can use something like this:
@DELETE @Path("/{id}") public void deletePerson(@PathParam("id") Integer id) { personService.deletePerson(id); } You can create a delete method annotated with @DELETE and call it using delete http method in the rest client passing id.Check the below delete method for reference and you can change it as per your requirement.
@DELETE @Path("/{id}") @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN) public String deletePerson(@PathParam("id") Integer id) { //Your delete logic goes here return "Successfully deleted person info"; } 
Something like this
@DELETE @Path("/{id}") public void deletePerson(@PathParam("id") Integer id) { ... } with proper http status code
9.7 DELETE
A successful response SHOULD be 200 (OK) if the response includes an entity describing the status, 202 (Accepted) if the action has not yet been enacted, or 204 (No Content) if the action has been enacted but the response does not include an entity.
More info: 3.1.2. @GET, @PUT, @POST, @DELETE, ... (HTTP Methods)