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

You are actually able to fool Angular2 HTTP into sending a body with a DELETE by using the request method. This is how:

let body = {
    target: targetId,
    subset: "fruits",
    reason: "rotten"
};

let options = new RequestOptionsArgs({ 
    body: body,
    method: RequestMethod.Delete
  });

this.http.request('http://testAPI:3000/stuff', options)
    .subscribe((ok)=>{console.log(ok)});

Note, you will have to set the request method in the RequestOptionsArgs and not in http.request's alternative first parameter Request. That for some reason yields the same result as using http.delete

I hope this helps and that I am not to late. I think the angular guys are wrong here to not allow a body to be passed with delete, even though it is discouraged.