Restful way for deleting a bunch of items

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One option is to create a delete “transaction”. So you POST to something like http://example.com/resources/deletes a new resource consisting of a list of resources to be deleted. Then in your application you just do the delete. When you do the post you should return a location of your created transaction e.g., http://example.com/resources/deletes/DF4XY7. A GET on this could return the status of the transaction (complete or in progress) and/or a list of resources to be deleted.

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