Question

I’m using Django-Tastypie to provide a REST-API for my web application.

In this case I have a PhotoGallery object, which references to a couple of Photos using a intermediate table (using through on the ManyToMany field).

Unfortunately I have some trouble saving the PhotoGallery object through the REST interface, as it would require me to create the respective links in the intermediate table (which contain a bit of additional information like a sort index, etc.).

To simplify the API, I decided to expose the intermediate table as well, and now users can create and modify the relation between photos and the galleries.

To prevent the user of the REST-API having to delete each link with a single HTTP request, I’m wondering if it is possible to use a single HTTP DELETE request to delete a selected number of objects. Filtering does not seem to be respected with DELETE requests.

Answer 1

Have you considered the PATCH method? Take a look the Bulk Operations section in the docs.
Pay attention to the "deleted_objects": ... part.