Delete a todo item in the application

How to complete the challenge DELETE /todos/id (200) to successfully delete a todo item in the application.

DELETE /todos/id (200)

Issue a DELETE request to successfully delete a todo

DELETE request will delete a todo if the provided id exists /todos/id end point
- e.g. DELETE /todos/3 to delete the todo with id==3
200 is an success code, in this case it means the todo was deleted
The body of the message is empty
add the X-CHALLENGER header

Basic Instructions

Issue a DELETE request to end point "/todos/id"
- where id is replaced with the id of an existing todo
  - if you don't know any then a GET /todos would show a list of todos, or you could POST /todos to create one.
- e.g using endpoint
  - https://apichallenges.eviltester.com/todos/id
The request should have an X-CHALLENGER header to track challenge completion
The response status code should be 200 when all the details are valid and the todo exists.
To double check that the todo item was deleted, then you could issue a GET request on the todo directly and receive a 404 or issue a GET request on /todos and check it is not in the list of todos.

Example Request

> DELETE /todos/62 HTTP/1.1
> Host: apichallenges.eviltester.com
> User-Agent: rest-client
> X-CHALLENGER: x-challenger-guid
> Accept: */*

Example Response

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Connection: close
< Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:25:53 GMT
< Content-Type: application/json
< X-Challenger: x-challenger-guid
< Server: Jetty(9.4.z-SNAPSHOT)
< Via: 1.1 vegur

Overview Video

Watch on YouTube: "Solution to DELETE todo challenge"

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