Delete OData Entities with the SAP Cloud SDK's Virtual Data Model

As in the previous tutorial we have to create a controller to expose the endpoint for deleting an address. Note: If you have already controller and service classes from the previous tutorials you can of course keep the existing files and just extend the classes by the new methods. Create a business-partner.controller.ts and add the following implementation:

import { Controller, Param, HttpCode, Delete } from '@nestjs/common';

@Controller('business-partners')
export class BusinessPartnerController {
  @Delete('/:businessPartnerId/address/:addressId')
  @HttpCode(204)
  deleteBusinessPartnerAddress(@Param('businessPartnerId') businessPartnerId, @Param('addressId') addressId){
    console.log(`Your request parameters are businessPartnerId:${businessPartnerId} and addressId:${addressId}.`);
  }
}

The deleteBusinessPartnerAddress does not do anything useful yet, but you will implement it in the next chapter. We will do the implementation in a separate business-partner.service.ts file, which we will prepare already now:

import { Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';

@Injectable()
export class BusinessPartnerService {
  deleteBusinessPartnerAddress(businessPartnerId: string, addressId: string): Promise<void> {
    return;
  }
}

Finally, register the controller and service in the root application module app.module.ts:

import { Module } from '@nestjs/common';
import { AppController } from './app.controller';
import { AppService } from './app.service';
import { BusinessPartnerController } from './business-partner.controller';
import { BusinessPartnerService } from './business-partner.service';

@Module({
  imports: [],
  controllers: [AppController, BusinessPartnerController],
  providers: [AppService, BusinessPartnerService]
})
export class AppModule {}

Note, that we used the DELETE method in the controller, so we need to send a DELETE request to trigger this controller method. Restart your server and send a DELETE request to http://localhost:3000/business-partners/1/address/2. The server should respond with status code 204 - No content and in the console of your local server you should see:
Your request parameters are businessPartnerId:1 and addressId:2.

Next, we use the VDM to delete a business partner address. Open business-partner.service.ts and overwrite deleteBusinessPartnerAddress as shown below:

import { Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';
import {BusinessPartnerAddress} from '@sap/cloud-sdk-vdm-business-partner-service';

@Injectable()
export class BusinessPartnerService {
  deleteBusinessPartnerAddress(businessPartnerId: string, addressId: string): Promise<void> {
    return BusinessPartnerAddress.requestBuilder()
    .delete(businessPartnerId, addressId)
    .execute({
      url: 'https://my.s4hana.ondemand.com/'
    });
  }
}

As of version 1.7.0 of the SAP Cloud SDK, you can alternatively pass an entity to the delete method instead of the entity’s key fields. This has the advantage that the version identifier of the entity is set automatically. When going with the first approach, you would have to manually supply the version identifier using the setVersionIdentifier method. Therefore, if you already have an instance of the entity you want to delete, passing it directly is the easier approach.

Be aware that executing a delete request will return a Promise<void>. In order to expose the delete method to the client, we need to adjust the controller:

import { Controller, Param, HttpCode, Delete } from '@nestjs/common';
import { BusinessPartnerService } from './business-partner.service';

@Controller('business-partners')
export class BusinessPartnerController {
  constructor(private readonly businessPartnerService: BusinessPartnerService) {}

  @Delete('/:businessPartnerId/address/:addressId')
  @HttpCode(204)
  deleteBusinessPartnerAddress(@Param('businessPartnerId') businessPartnerId, @Param('addressId') addressId): Promise<void> {
    return this.businessPartnerService.deleteBusinessPartnerAddress(businessPartnerId, addressId);
  }
}

Restart your server and send a delete request to http://localhost:3000/business-partners/1/address/1 (or the respective IDs you used in the previous tutorials). If everything works, you should see an empty response and return type 204 and your address should disappear in the backend.