Java HTTP DELETE with Request Body

Question

I have an external API which uses DELETE with the body(JSON). I make use of Postman REST Client and get the delete done with request body and it works fine. I am trying to a

Answer 1

If you are using Spring, you can use RestTemplate to generate the client request. In this case you could use RestTemplate.exchange and provide the url, http method and request body. Something like (not tested, but you get the idea):

RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
HttpEntity request = new HttpEntity<>(new Foo("bar"));
restTemplate.exchange(url, HttpMethod.DELETE, request, null);