You denote a RESTful deletion of a document by sending a HTTP DELETE request with the ID and revision of the document to be deleted.
Using the HTML from the previous recipe, here's a script that extracts the ID and revision from the form fields, does some simple error checking, and sends a deletion request to the server for the document with the indicated ID and revision:
function doRemove()
{
id = $('#id').val();
rev = $('#rev').val();
if (id == '')
{
alert("Must provide an ID to delete!");
return;
}
if (rev == '')
{
alert("Must provide a document revision!");
return;
}
$.ajax({
type: "DELETE",
url: "http://localhost:5984/documents/" + id + '?rev=' + rev,
})
.done(function(result) {
$('#json').html(JSON.stringify(result));
var resultHtml = "Deleted";
$('#result').html(resultHtml);
})
}