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

1. 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 into 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
   • Bpdy Type: json
   • Body: {"message": "Pizza was deleted"}
3. Save the new Stub

• 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 = '/pizza';
    Uri url = Uri.https(authority, deletePath);
    http.Response r = await http.delete(
     ...