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Confirm deletion in RESTful APIs

March 1, 2020

When designing web services, it’s normal to include an option to delete an user’s account. Since this is an important action (the user and its data will dissapear from the platform), usually this is done by asking him to confirm the operation, with several endpoints one for each operation step. Navigating between different pages is so 2010-style, and there’s no direct mapping at this point between REST APIs and CRUD operations, that I’ve been thinking in a REST compatible alternative: use a token.

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