Question

I am using Jersey Framework (JAX-RS implementation) for building RESTful Web Services.

I’m not able to use the @DELETE REST method, since its throwing an exception when I try to invoke it.The following @DELETE method is used to delete an Employee:

@Path("/employees")
public class EmpResource {

@DELETE
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public Response deleteEmployee(JAXBElement<String> r) throws ClassNotFoundException, SQLException {

    String name = r.getValue();
    String response = DAOaccess.deleteEmp(name);
    return Response.noContent().build();    

}

And I’m using the following block of code to invoke the service:

Client client = Client.create();
WebResource webResource = client.resource("http://localhost:8080/RestApp/sample/employees");
String input = "{\"name\":\"John\"}";
ClientResponse response = webResource.type(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).delete(ClientResponse.class,input);

When I run my client, it throws the following exception:

Exception in thread "main" com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientHandlerException: java.net.ProtocolException: HTTP method DELETE doesn't support output
at com.sun.jersey.client.urlconnection.URLConnectionClientHandler.handle(URLConnectionClientHandler.java:151)
at com.sun.jersey.api.client.Client.handle(Client.java:648)
at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource.handle(WebResource.java:680)
at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource.access$200(WebResource.java:74)
at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource$Builder.delete(WebResource.java:599)

It would be great if someone could guide me on how to resolve it?

Answer 1

For me it helped to remove input parameter from delete() method on client

ClientResponse response = webResource.type(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).delete(ClientResponse.class);

and send it over @pathParam instead:

public String delete(@PathParam("input") String input){...}