How to send enclose data in DELETE request in Jersey client?

Question

I have the following server-side code in Jersey 2.x:

@Path("/store/remove/from/group")
@DELETE
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED)
@Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
public Response removeStoresFromGroup(@FormParam("storeName") List<String> storeNames, @FormParam("groupName") String groupName) {
    //......
}

On client side, I want to use Jersey 2.x client to send a delete request to the above web service. However, from the documentation of Jersey client API, I didn't find how to enclose the following data in DELETE request:

WebTarget webTarget = client.target("/store/remove/from/group");
MultivaluedMap<String, String> formData = new MultivaluedHashMap<String, String>();
List<String> storeName = new ArrayList<String>();
storeName.add("Store1");
storeName.add("Store2");
storeName.add("Store3");

formData.addAll("storeName", storeName);
formData.add("groupName", "Group A");

Response response = webTarget.request().accept(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN).delete();   //The delete() method doesn't take any entity body in the request.

From the Jersey client API, the SyncInvoker class doesn't support a delete method with entity body as its argument. So I can only use either POST or PUT to send the data to the server like the following (but not for DELETE):

Response response = webTarget.request().accept(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN).post(Entity.form(formData)); 

But I want to use DELETE request since the request is deleting some resources. How to send DELETE request with some entity data via Jersey client?

Answer 1

You can use webTarget.request().accept(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN).method("DELETE",yourEntity) to invoke a DELETE with an entity in it.