How to return an empty response with grape?

Question

I have a format :xml Grape::API and for a delete request I want to return an empty response.

Everything I try to enter though, true, false, nil, it tries to convert to xml. How would I go about doing this?

Thanks

Answer 1

Use:

delete do
  # your code...
  body false
end

Answer 2

Usually, you don't. Since blank body is not a valid xml. But if you insist:

module NullXml
  def self.to_xml
    ""
  end
end

# grape endpoint
delete "/something" do
  # do the deletion
  NullXml
end