Deleting Objects via a View, thesarfo

To delete an object, it has to be performed in the view function that gets a single object. In this scenario, we will perform the deletion in the product_detail view function. We need to specify the DELETE method. And then we need an elif method that if the method equals delete, we delete the product and return a non existent resource. see below.

@api_view(['GET', 'PUT', 'DELETE'])
def product_detail(request, id):
    product = get_object_or_404(Product, pk=id)
    if request.method == 'GET':
        serializer = ProductSerializer(product)
        return Response(serializer.data)
    elif request.method == 'PUT':
        serializer = ProductSerializer(product, data=request.data)
        serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True)
        serializer.save()
        return Response(serializer.data)
    elif request.method == 'DELETE':
        product.delete()
        return Response(status.status.HTTP_204_NO_CONTENT)