DELETE-ing data

In this recipe, you will learn how to perform a DELETE action on a web service. This is useful when your apps need to delete existing data from a web service.

Getting ready

To follow along with this recipe, you must have completed the code in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

To perform a DELETE action on a web service, follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Wiremock service at https://app.wiremock.cloud and click on the Stubs section of the example API. Then, create a new stub.
2. Complete the request, with the following data:
   • Name: Delete Pizza
   • Verb: DELETE
   • Address: /pizza
   • Status: 200
   • Body Type: json
   • Body: {"message": "Pizza was deleted"}
3. Save the new stub.
4. In the Flutter project, add a deletePizza method to the HttpHelper class in the http_helper.dart file:

   Future<String> deletePizza(int id) async {
       const deletePath...