Is it possible to send HTTP DELETE or PATCH from DRF web page with a web browser ?

[Olivier Krief]

Hello,

I'm discovering DRF.

Is it possible to send HTTP DELETE or PATCH from DRF web page ?

When I type http://foo/api/friends/3/ in my browser, I'm seeing content describing Friend 2 or Friend 3 instance.

When I type curl -X DELETE http://foo/api/friends/2/ a DELETE request is sent to my Django app and everything works OK as Friend 2 is removed from database.

When looking at Friend 3 instance, I can see a DELETE and a Delete buttons.

When I click over DELETE then Delete buttons, a GET request is sent over to my Django instance.

I would expect a DELETE request to be sent.

I tried this with both Firefox 68 ESR and Chromium 57 and with both a GET request is sent instead of a DELETE one.

I also tried with PATCH button: a GET request is also sent.

Looking at this HTTP request capture, I do not see any evidence reflecting a DELETE or PATCH intent.

Looking at page HTML source code, I can see that buttons are mapped to GET request with an intriguing "data-method" set to DELETE or PATCH.

1. Is it possible to have these browsers sending expected DELETE or PATCH requests ?

Is it something that can be configured by Django ? Within browsers themselves ?

2. Is it possible to have these browsers still sending GET request but have my Django app mapping these requests to the DELETE/PATCH/whatever

methods these requests are supposed to be mapped to ?

Best regards

[Linovia]

Hi,

If you are referring to the browsable API, you should see a DELETE request.

If you are unsure, check the django server logs, you’ll see a DELETE.

The delete button is wrapped in the following form:

<form class="button-form" action="/snippets/4/" data-method="DELETE">

    <button class="btn btn-danger">Delete</button>

</form>

However browsers may not correctly show operations other than GET or POST.

Regards,

Xavier O.

Linovia.

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[Carl Nobile]

You asked a very basic question and the answer, in all cases, is yes. You need to RTM (https://www.django-rest-framework.org/), it's all in there.

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-rest-framework/5fb29489-e0ab-4479-9a4d-21726ee5f380%40Spark.

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