How to pass parameter using Ext.Ajax.request when method type is DELETE

Question

I am trying to send use Ext.Ajax.request method to delete some data on server. My request method looks as below :

Ext.Ajax.request({
      url: '/myserver/restful/service/delete',
      method: 'DELETE',
      headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json'
      },
      params: {
        userId: 12345
      }
});

On my jersey server I have written which looks like as below :

@Path("/delete")
  @DELETE
  @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
  @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
  public Response deleteUser(final String userId) {
    System.out.println("user id = " + userId);
    return Response.ok().entity("success").build();
  }

This method prints out user id in following format :

user id = userId=12345

So my expected value for userId is 12345 but it is giving me userId=12345. As I am newbie to jersey thing, I am not able to decide what to do now.

Can anyone please tell what is going wrong?

I solved my problem by appending userId to url itself. Now my url part looks like '/myserver/restful/service/delete?userId=12345' — Shekhar, Dec 19 '12 at 14:14

Julian Reschke · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-19T23:03:47.620

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Not sure about what's going wrong in Jersey, but... if you are trying to use DELETE with a request body you're on the wrong track anyway. Don't. The only relevant parameter for DELETE should be the request URI it's being applied to.

edited Dec 19 '12 at 23:03

answered Dec 19 '12 at 13:52

Julian Reschke

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 19 '12 at 14:00

@Julian is correct you really shouldn't have params with an HTTP DELETE verb.

Try this:

@Path("/delete/{userId}

Then inside of your method:

@PathParam("userId") String userId

And then when you call your service change your url to : delete/(userId) (without the parens) and remove the params.

How to pass parameter using Ext.Ajax.request when method type is DELETE

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