Rest DELETE verb with matlab's webread/webwrite

Question

Is there a way to send PUT and DELETE requests with webread() / webwrite()?

Trying to do opt = weboptions('RequestMethod','delete') gets me the following error message:

Error using weboptions (line 223)
Expected RequestMethod to match one of these strings:

'auto', 'get', 'post'

The input, 'delete', did not match any of the valid strings.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 03 '15 at 00:16

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MATLAB doesn't have full REST capability easily. You can expand it by using urlread2 http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/35693-urlread2 or writing your own Java code.

answered Oct 03 '15 at 00:16

Eugene K

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Out of curiosity, do you know why? – ImAlsoGreg Oct 03 '15 at 22:20
I do not know. Could be that most people don't use MATLAB for the web. Or that The Mathworks doesn't care about web. – Eugene K Oct 04 '15 at 02:22

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 17 '17 at 10:31

As of 2016b this can be done with matlab.net.http.RequestMessage https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_external/send-http-message.html

request=matlab.net.http.RequestMessage('delete',[],matlab.net.http.MessageBody(''))
response=request.send( 'http://stackoverflow.com')

Rest DELETE verb with matlab's webread/webwrite

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