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

Below is a relevant code example for Angular 4/5 with the new HttpClient.

import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';
import { HttpHeaders } from '@angular/common/http';

public removeItem(item) {
    let options = {
      headers: new HttpHeaders({
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      }),
      body: item,
    };

    return this._http
      .delete('/api/menu-items', options)
      .map((response: Response) => response)
      .toPromise()
      .catch(this.handleError);
  }