Feature Request: Delete Messages from Inbox

Issue Description

Could we please get the option for deleting a message (PMs) from account inboxes? With something like

r.inbox.messages.delete(‘message_id’).

BACKGROUND: Currently I’m writing a bot that needs to check for unread messages, take action on them and then delete them when they are done. However, the functionality does not seem to be there. nor does there seem to be a read/unread attribute when running

pprint.pprint(vars(message_id))

System Information

PRAW Version: 5.3.0 Python Version: 3.5 Operating System: Linux, ElementaryOS Loki

Possible solution might be to use this code

[bboe]

Oh you asked about testing too. Give a read through these two resources:

• https://github.com/praw-dev/praw/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
• https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/package_info/contributing.html

Thanks so much for taking a stab at this work. You’re awesome.

[ghost]

Next Steps

Excuse the write up, I'm trying to make sure I do this right. As they say, Measure twice, cut once.

Step 1: Create a pull request

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First I need fork PRAW into a branch that I own, clone that to my computer and then create a PR for master and my forked branch?

Step 2: Make The Method

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In praw / models / reddit / message.py create a function in class message underneat def init()…

 @classmethod
 def delete(self, reddit):
    self._reddit.post(API_PATH[delete_message], data={'id': self.id} )

Where self is the message object and reddit is the reddit instance. (_reddit.post(…) I believe is basically a POST to the API path defined in the const.py file. )

Step 3: Make the Mapping

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In const.py, add the folloing mapping in alphabetical order…

'delete_message': 'r/{subreddit}/api/del_msg',

I believe this is correct because of the delete messages reference in the Reddit API spec

Step 4: Test

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I have no idea how to do this, but at this point I need to make sure that the function actually works.

Step 4: Push

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Huston, we have my first contribution to open source