Body of Http.DELETE request in Angular2

Question

I\'m trying to talk to a somewhat RESTful API from an Angular 2 frontend.

To remove some item from a collection, I need to send some other data in addition to the re

Answer 1

The http.delete(url, options) does accept a body. You just need to put it within the options object.

http.delete('/api/something', new RequestOptions({
   headers: headers,
   body: anyObject
}))

Reference options interface: https://angular.io/api/http/RequestOptions

UPDATE:

The above snippet only work for Angular 2.x, 4.x and 5.x.

For versions 6.x and 7.x, Angular offers different overloads for what you need. Check all overloads here: https://angular.io/api/common/http/HttpClient#delete

const options = {
  headers: new HttpHeaders({
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  }),
  body: {
    id: 1,
    name: 'test',
  },
};

this.httpClient
  .delete('http://localhost:8080/something', options)
  .subscribe((s) => {
    console.log(s);
  });