How do I use the REST API to delete ten records at a time using axios?
I can successfully delete one record at a time, but due to the API design, I am having a problem constructing the URL to delete ten at a time.
Here is what works with one record at a time:
I am using a library in Node.js called axios to do HTTP method calls, and here is the call that works:
await axios.delete(url, {params: params, headers: headers})
.then(async function(response) {
console.log('DELETED:',
response.status,
response.statusText);
});
I define params this way (I have a method call that returns the params to send to axios)
params = await getParams(rec); // rec is the Airtable record identifier like: `rec
async function getDelParams(rec) {
const params = {
'records[]': rec // rec is like: rec5GWL8xCpofFKFC
};
return params
}
In this key/value pair, I can only have one entry of : records[] , no more, I need ten.
The REST API requires multiple records like:
records[]=rec5GWL8xCpofFKFC&records[]=rec5GWL8xCpofFLSD&records[]=rec5GWL8xCpofXMAS
and so on, up to ten max.
but axios accepts params as a list of key/value pairs, and there can be only one key: records[] in the list.
I need key/value pairs because I have other keys/values that I am sending, and this makes it convenient.
How can I use axios/key value pairs to make this work so that it sends 10 at a time, instead of one at a time?
Follow up:
What could be done here (or what is typically done here) to design a better API to accept a list of values with one key?
