How to send payload data using sitebricks web client using http delete method

[Adio Gemon]

I am using sitebricks http client to send http requests to a rest service. My question is how to send a payload data with delete ? post method accepts data as a parameter

WebClient<SubnetId> client = web().clientOf(deleteUser()).transports(User.class).over(Json.class);

//client.post(user) <-- this is OK ! 

client.delete(); // <-- delete does not accepts user !!!

[Dhanji R. Prasanna]

The http delete method does not support a body, so you should use the URI to pass whatever additional info you want either as query params or matrix params

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[Adio Gemon]

Dihanji, thanks for the quick reply. 

I wonder why delete does not support a body ? Using AngularJS I am able to support DELETE method body just perfectly. 

[Dhanji R. Prasanna]

Im not sure but afaik it's not part of the HTTP specification, so it would be a odd that angular allows it (does it also let GET send a body??). 

The idea is that DELETE erases a resource already on the server, identified by the called URI. 

There is some discussion here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/299628/is-an-entity-body-allowed-for-an-http-delete-request

"if the request method does not include defined semantics for an entity-body, then the message-body SHOULD be ignored when handling the request."

The spec does not talk about it at all. But I tend to be puzzled by what body goes thru in a delete. It seems more like GET to me. Or more like PUT(null) if we were to look at it that way. =)

Is there a strong need for it?

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[Adio Gemon]

It is hard to say strong need. The body of delete may represent an ID object of what we want to delete, 
something Like :  

  @Post

  public Reply deleteUser(Request request) {

    UserId id = request.read(UserId.class).as(Json.class);

    service.deleteUser(id);

    return Reply.saying().ok();

  }

On Thursday, 25 April 2013 11:52:20 UTC+3, Adio Gemon wrote: