Rest template delete not working

Question

I tried invoking delete operation via RestTemplate's delete method but it's not working. My Rest controller code for delete

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.DELETE)
 @ResponseBody
  public DeleteResponse deleteRecords(
  @RequestBody final DeleteRequest DeleteRequest) {

    DeleteResponse response=new DeleteResponse();
    //invoke respective services to do delete operations
    response.setStatus("success");
    response.setMessage("all records deleted successfully");
    return response;

  }

  Class DeleteRequest{
    @JsonProperty(value="userId")
    String userId;
    @JsonProperty(value="records")
    List<Record>  records;
  }
  class Record{
    @JsonProperty(value="key1")
        String key1;
    @JsonProperty(value="key2")
        String key2;
    @JsonProperty(value="key3")
        String key3;
  }

//Client invocation

 public void deleteRecords(String url,DeleteRequest deleteRequest){
    resttemplate.delete(url, deleteRequest);
}

I am invoking put in similar way its working fine. for delete i get below exception Exception occured : Could not read JSON: No content to map due to end-of-input.

To check whether there is a problem in the way I am passing the json values I created a class extending RestTemplate and added a method performActionForObject

public class MyRestTemplate extends RestTemplate {

    public <T> T performActionForObject(String url, Object request, Class<T> responseType,HttpMethod method) throws RestClientException {
        RequestCallback requestCallback = httpEntityCallback(request, responseType);
        HttpMessageConverterExtractor<T> responseExtractor =
                new HttpMessageConverterExtractor<T>(responseType, getMessageConverters());
        return execute(url, method, requestCallback, responseExtractor);
    }

}

then invoked delete operation as below

DeleteResponse response= resttemplate.performActionForObject(url, deleteRequest, DeleteResponse.class, HttpMethod.DELETE);

It didn't work i got the same exception so i changed delete to post in both controller and rest client it worked perfectly.

 @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)
     @ResponseBody
      public DeleteResponse deleteRecords(
      @RequestBody final DeleteRequest DeleteRequest) {

DeleteResponse response= resttemplate.performActionForObject(url, deleteRequest, DeleteResponse.class, HttpMethod.POST);

Not sure why it's not working when i use delete