Class: Net::HTTP::Delete

Inherits:

Net::HTTPRequest

• Object
• Net::HTTPGenericRequest
• Net::HTTPRequest
• Net::HTTP::Delete

Defined in:

lib/net/http/requests.rb

Overview

Class for representing HTTP method DELETE:

require 'net/http'
uri = URI('http://example.com')
hostname = uri.hostname # => "example.com"
uri.path = '/posts/1'
req = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(uri) # => #<Net::HTTP::Delete DELETE>
res = Net::HTTP.start(hostname) do |http|
http.request(req)
end

See Request Headers.

Properties:

• Request body: optional.
• Response body: yes.
• Safe: no.
• Idempotent: yes.
• Cacheable: no.

Related:

• Net::HTTP#delete: sends DELETE request, returns response object.

Constant Summary

METHOD =

'DELETE'

REQUEST_HAS_BODY =

false

RESPONSE_HAS_BODY =

true

Method Summary

Methods inherited from Net::HTTPRequest

#initialize

Constructor Details

This class inherits a constructor from Net::HTTPRequest