Angular.js delete resource with parameter

Question

My rest api accpets DELETE requests to the following url

/api/users/{slug} 

So by sending delete to a specified user (slug) the user would be deleted. here is the service code:

angular.module('UserService',['ngResource']).factory('User', function($resource){     var User = $resource('/api/users/:id1/:action/:id2', //add param to the url     {},      {          delete_user: {             method: 'DELETE',             params: {                 id1:"@id"             }         },         update: {             method: 'PUT',             params: {                 id1:"@id"             }         }     });       return User; });  

I call the delete function via

user.$delete_user({id:user.id}, function(){}, function(response){});  

However the request seems to be send to the wrong url.

/api/users?id=4 

So the parameter is actually missing, as a result I get a 405 Method not allowed. Is there any chance to send the delete request in the style of my api?

Answer 1

params is an object of default request parameteres in your actions. If you want url parameters you have to specify them in the second parameter like this:

angular.module('UserService',['ngResource']).factory('User', function($resource){     var User = $resource('/api/users/:id1/:action/:id2', //add param to the url     {id1:'@id'},     {          delete_user: {             method: 'DELETE'         }     });       return User; });  

this works with either:

// user has id user.$delete_user(function(){   //success },function(){   // error }); 

or

var data = {id:'id_from_data'}; User.delete_user({},data); 

or

var params = {id1:'id1_from_params'}; User.delete_user(params); 

I've made a plnkr-example - you have to open your console to verify that the DELETE requests are correct.

See parameterDefaults in the Angular resource documentation.