xhr.del (dojo/request/xhr) doesn't automatically handle json response

[xgendrea]

Hi all,

When I use this code for example:

xhr.del(
  url+'/'+id,
  {
    handleAs : "json",
    headers : {
      "Accept": "application/javascript, application/json"
    }
  }
).then(
  function (data) {
    var rowId = json.parse(data)[0].id; // why json.parse is needed !!!! 
  }
);

I need to use json.parse because data is a string.

This is different as in xhr.get or xhr.put because response data in those cases are automatically parsed.

For my point of view, as handleAs is set to 'json', the automatic parsing functionnality must be made in xhr.del.

Thx for your answer

[dylan]

The reason this is not supported is that delete was not expected to have a payload for you to handle/parse. That said, the spec says otherwise, ​https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6581285/is-a-response-body-allowed-for-a-http-delete-request .

Will look at this for 1.12.