healthcare API: add comment clarifying that deleted FHIR resources wi… (GoogleCloudPlatform#3041)

noerog · web-flow · commit a28a751be64a · 2020-06-03T17:40:04.000Z
Fixes b/157555873
diff --git a/healthcare/v1/src/main/java/snippets/healthcare/fhir/resources/FhirResourceDelete.java b/healthcare/v1/src/main/java/snippets/healthcare/fhir/resources/FhirResourceDelete.java
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ public static void fhirResourceDelete(String resourceName)
             .build();
 
     // Execute the request and process the results.
+    // Regardless of whether the operation succeeds or
+    // fails, the server returns a 200 OK HTTP status code. To check that the
+    // resource was successfully deleted, search for or get the resource and
+    // see if it exists.
     HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(request);
     HttpEntity responseEntity = response.getEntity();
     if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
