1. We need to pass booking id which you want to delete in URI. E.g. https://restful-booker.herokuapp.com/booking/1 where “1” is booking id.
2. Authentication token need to pass as cookie. Cookie name is “token” and value is generated auth token. ‘Cookie: token=<generatedToken>’.
3. You don’t required to pass body to DELETE request.

Let’s see existing details of a Booking ID 1 using Postman:-

Let’s generate token which I have already covered in Previous post. Perform all above steps in Postman tool as of now. We will see in upcoming posts to chain different requests in REST Assured.

Generate Token:-

Non-BDD Style:-

package RestfulBooker.deleteExamples;
 
import io.restassured.RestAssured;
import io.restassured.response.Response;
import io.restassured.response.ValidatableResponse;
import io.restassured.specification.RequestSpecification;
 
public class NonBDDDeleteRequest {
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
 
		// Create a request specification
		RequestSpecification request = RestAssured.given();
 
		// Setting a cookie for authentication as per API documentation
		request.cookie("token", "f4e70e7b9bbcd05");
		// Adding URI
		request.baseUri("https://restful-booker.herokuapp.com/booking/1");
		
 
		// Calling PUT method on URI. After hitting we get Response
		Response response = request.delete();
 
		// Printing Response as string
		System.out.println(response.asString());
 
		// Get Validatable response to perform validation
		ValidatableResponse validatableResponse = response.then();
 
		// Validate status code as 201 as per API documentation
		validatableResponse.statusCode(201);
 
		// Validate if booking is actually deleted.
		RequestSpecification getRequestSpec = RestAssured.given();
		
		// Adding URI
		getRequestSpec.baseUri("https://restful-booker.herokuapp.com/booking/1");
		
		// Calling GET request
		Response res = getRequestSpec.get();
		
		// Get Validatable response to perform validation
		ValidatableResponse valRes = res.then();
		
		// It will check if status code is 404 as booking id should not be found
		valRes.statusCode(404);
		
 
	}
}

BDD Style:-

package RestfulBooker.deleteExamples;
 
import io.restassured.RestAssured;
 
public class BDDStyleDeleteRequest {
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		
 
		// Delete Booking
 
		//GIVEN
		RestAssured
			.given()
					.baseUri("https://restful-booker.herokuapp.com/booking/1")
					.cookie("token", "f7dddb1093eab19")
			// WHEN
			.when()
					.delete()
			// THEN
			.then()
					.assertThat()
					.statusCode(201);
		
		// Verifying booking is deleted
		// Given
		RestAssured
		    .given()
				    .baseUri("https://restful-booker.herokuapp.com/booking/1")
		// When
			.when()
					.get()
		// Then
			.then()
					.statusCode(404);
 
	}
}

Note:- You need to generate access token every time you hit the request otherwise you will get error code as 403.