HTTP Client DELETE with body

Marco Lettere <m.lettere at gmail.com> schrieb am Sa., 12. Juni 2021, 11:48: > Dear all, > > I have to call an API which model an HTTP DELETE operation based on the > body of the request. > > It looks like currently http:send-request is not allowing body to be > present ("Body not expected for method DELETE."). > > I feel that this is bit too restrictive interpretation of the spec which > states (as far as I recall) that there is no defined semantic for the > operation but not that it is forbidden. > > Is there any possibility to relax this behaviour and allow for bodies in > DELETE calls? [1] > > Thank you very much. > > Marco. > > > [1] > > https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/382c8097afb1ec5bac1e9511a2287686c33f669d/basex-core/src/main/java/org/basex/util/http/HttpRequestParser.java > >

> So I guess you’ve stumbled upon an API that expects a payload with DELETE? >

> Cheers > Christian > > [1] http://expath.org/spec/http-client#d2e104 > <http://expath.org/spec/http-client#d2e104> > > > > > Marco Lettere <m.lettere at gmail.com <mailto:m.lettere at gmail.com>> > schrieb am Sa., 12. Juni 2021, 11:48: > > Dear all, > > I have to call an API which model an HTTP DELETE operation based > on the > body of the request. > > It looks like currently http:send-request is not allowing body to be > present ("Body not expected for method DELETE."). > > I feel that this is bit too restrictive interpretation of the spec > which > states (as far as I recall) that there is no defined semantic for the > operation but not that it is forbidden. > > Is there any possibility to relax this behaviour and allow for > bodies in > DELETE calls? [1] > > Thank you very much. > > Marco. > > > [1] > https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/382c8097afb1ec5bac1e9511a2287686c33f669d/basex-core/src/main/java/org/basex/util/http/HttpRequestParser.java > <https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/382c8097afb1ec5bac1e9511a2287686c33f669d/basex-core/src/main/java/org/basex/util/http/HttpRequestParser.java> >

> So I guess you’ve stumbled upon an API that expects a payload with DELETE? > > Yes Christian, trying to delete an application role association to a user on the Keycloak REST APIs requires the role to be passed as JSON object in the DELETE body [1]. > > So at the moment I'm able to add roles to a user but I cannot change them because I'm unabale to remove one. > > Telling just because you asked ;-) > > Thanks a lot anyway for your attention. > > [1] https://www.keycloak.org/docs-api/11.0/rest-api/index.html#_client_role_mappings_resource > > Cheers > Christian > > [1] http://expath.org/spec/http-client#d2e104 > > > > > Marco Lettere <m.lettere at gmail.com> schrieb am Sa., 12. Juni 2021, 11:48: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I have to call an API which model an HTTP DELETE operation based on the >> body of the request. >> >> It looks like currently http:send-request is not allowing body to be >> present ("Body not expected for method DELETE."). >> >> I feel that this is bit too restrictive interpretation of the spec which >> states (as far as I recall) that there is no defined semantic for the >> operation but not that it is forbidden. >> >> Is there any possibility to relax this behaviour and allow for bodies in >> DELETE calls? [1] >> >> Thank you very much. >> >> Marco. >> >> >> [1] >> https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/382c8097afb1ec5bac1e9511a2287686c33f669d/basex-core/src/main/java/org/basex/util/http/HttpRequestParser.java >>

> Grazie, Marco. > > You convinced me there is no benefit in keeping the restriction (and > it we didn’t add it to the draft of version 2 of the spec either [1]). > I’ve just uploaded a new snapshot [2]; I hope it keeps you going. > > Ciao, Christian. > > [1] https://expath.github.io/expath-cg/specs/http-client-2/ > [2] https://files.basex.org/releases/latest/ > > > > So I guess you’ve stumbled upon an API that expects a payload with > DELETE? > > > > Yes Christian, trying to delete an application role association to a > user on the Keycloak REST APIs requires the role to be passed as JSON > object in the DELETE body [1]. > > > > So at the moment I'm able to add roles to a user but I cannot change > them because I'm unabale to remove one. > > > > Telling just because you asked ;-) > > > > Thanks a lot anyway for your attention. > > > > [1] > https://www.keycloak.org/docs-api/11.0/rest-api/index.html#_client_role_mappings_resource > > > > Cheers > > Christian > > > > [1] http://expath.org/spec/http-client#d2e104 > > > > > > > > > > Marco Lettere <m.lettere at gmail.com> schrieb am Sa., 12. Juni 2021, > 11:48: > >> > >> Dear all, > >> > >> I have to call an API which model an HTTP DELETE operation based on the > >> body of the request. > >> > >> It looks like currently http:send-request is not allowing body to be > >> present ("Body not expected for method DELETE."). > >> > >> I feel that this is bit too restrictive interpretation of the spec which > >> states (as far as I recall) that there is no defined semantic for the > >> operation but not that it is forbidden. > >> > >> Is there any possibility to relax this behaviour and allow for bodies in > >> DELETE calls? [1] > >> > >> Thank you very much. > >> > >> Marco. > >> > >> > >> [1] > >> > https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/382c8097afb1ec5bac1e9511a2287686c33f669d/basex-core/src/main/java/org/basex/util/http/HttpRequestParser.java > >> >

Il sab 12 giu 2021, 16:37 Christian Grün <christian.gruen at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> So I guess you’ve stumbled upon an API that expects a payload with DELETE? > > Yes Christian, trying to delete an application role association to a user on the Keycloak REST APIs requires the role to be passed as JSON object in the DELETE body [1]. > > So at the moment I'm able to add roles to a user but I cannot change them because I'm unabale to remove one. > > Telling just because you asked ;-) > > Thanks a lot anyway for your attention. > > [1] https://www.keycloak.org/docs-api/11.0/rest-api/index.html#_client_role_mappings_resource > > Cheers > Christian > > [1] http://expath.org/spec/http-client#d2e104 > > > > > Marco Lettere <m.lettere at gmail.com> schrieb am Sa., 12. Juni 2021, 11:48: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I have to call an API which model an HTTP DELETE operation based on the >> body of the request. >> >> It looks like currently http:send-request is not allowing body to be >> present ("Body not expected for method DELETE."). >> >> I feel that this is bit too restrictive interpretation of the spec which >> states (as far as I recall) that there is no defined semantic for the >> operation but not that it is forbidden. >> >> Is there any possibility to relax this behaviour and allow for bodies in >> DELETE calls? [1] >> >> Thank you very much. >> >> Marco. >> >> >> [1] >> https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/382c8097afb1ec5bac1e9511a2287686c33f669d/basex-core/src/main/java/org/basex/util/http/HttpRequestParser.java >>

Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau at yahoo.de> schrieb am Sa., 12. Juni 2021, 16:56: > Indeed - common sense & top flexibility! > > Am Samstag, 12. Juni 2021, 16:45:05 MESZ hat Marco Lettere < > m.lettere at gmail.com> Folgendes geschrieben: > > > Thank you! I didn't want to disturb your weekend though.... Top quality > BaseX service! 😁🤩 > > Il sab 12 giu 2021, 16:37 Christian Grün <christian.gruen at gmail.com> ha > scritto: > > Grazie, Marco. > > You convinced me there is no benefit in keeping the restriction (and > it we didn’t add it to the draft of version 2 of the spec either [1]). > I’ve just uploaded a new snapshot [2]; I hope it keeps you going. > > Ciao, Christian. > > [1] https://expath.github.io/expath-cg/specs/http-client-2/ > [2] https://files.basex.org/releases/latest/ > > > > So I guess you’ve stumbled upon an API that expects a payload with > DELETE? > > > > Yes Christian, trying to delete an application role association to a > user on the Keycloak REST APIs requires the role to be passed as JSON > object in the DELETE body [1]. > > > > So at the moment I'm able to add roles to a user but I cannot change > them because I'm unabale to remove one. > > > > Telling just because you asked ;-) > > > > Thanks a lot anyway for your attention. > > > > [1] > https://www.keycloak.org/docs-api/11.0/rest-api/index.html#_client_role_mappings_resource > > > > Cheers > > Christian > > > > [1] http://expath.org/spec/http-client#d2e104 > > > > > > > > > > Marco Lettere <m.lettere at gmail.com> schrieb am Sa., 12. Juni 2021, > 11:48: > >> > >> Dear all, > >> > >> I have to call an API which model an HTTP DELETE operation based on the > >> body of the request. > >> > >> It looks like currently http:send-request is not allowing body to be > >> present ("Body not expected for method DELETE."). > >> > >> I feel that this is bit too restrictive interpretation of the spec which > >> states (as far as I recall) that there is no defined semantic for the > >> operation but not that it is forbidden. > >> > >> Is there any possibility to relax this behaviour and allow for bodies in > >> DELETE calls? [1] > >> > >> Thank you very much. > >> > >> Marco. > >> > >> > >> [1] > >> > https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/382c8097afb1ec5bac1e9511a2287686c33f669d/basex-core/src/main/java/org/basex/util/http/HttpRequestParser.java > >> > >