Request: add top level DELETE route

[toratora]

Fantastic plugin! Using it to generate all my REST routes. What's missing is a delete_all method to delete all elements under a route instead of just one specific element.

To use an example from your POD:

  #
  # Pattern           Methods   Name                        Class::Method Name
  # -------           -------   ----                        ------------------
  # /accounts         *         accounts
  #   +/              DELETE       "accounts_delete_all"             Accounts::delete_all

Or you could use accounts_clear and Accounts::clear for Name and class method name.

I've ran into some cases that require this action and thought I'd ask here first before cloning your code.

[Paul Williams]

Oo, thanks! I had no idea anyone was actually using the plugin. I was just wrote it to do what I thought would be useful.

Hmm, your request has come at a good time. I've recently implemented the method_map which maps methods against an element. I've only just released it, so thinking about renaming it to element_method_map and adding a new collection_method_map which should do what you want.

I'll see if I can hack something up for you.

[Paul Williams]

OK, I've added this option for you (I think delete_collection is a more meaningful name, so gone with that for the examples below).

If you want the delete action to work for every collection, you can set the collection_method_map option when loading the plugin.

$self->plugin(
    'Restify',
    {
        collection_method_map =>
          {delete => 'delete_collection', get => 'list', post => 'create'}
    }
);

or when creating a specific collection

$r->collection(
    'accounts',
    {
        collection_method_map =>
          {delete => 'delete_collection', get => 'list', post => 'create'},
    }
);

or if you use the restify routes helper

$self->restify->routes(
    $r,
    {
        accounts => [
            undef,
            {
                collection_method_map => {
                    delete => 'delete_collection',
                    get    => 'list',
                    post   => 'create',
                }
            }
        ]
    }
);

[toratora]

Thanks! Great solution, working well.