Deleting data from a database – the React–Flask approach
Deleting data from a database involves removing one or more records or rows from a table. In this section, you are going to learn how to handle delete requests in a React–Flask web application.
Handling delete requests in Flask
Let’s create the endpoint to handle the logic for deleting speaker data from the database:
@app.route('/api/v1/speakers/<int:speaker_id>', methods=['DELETE'])
def delete_speaker(speaker_id):
speaker = Speaker.query.get_or_404(speaker_id)
if not current_user.has_permission("delete_speaker"):
abort(http.Forbidden("You do not have permission to
delete this speaker"))
events =
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