Angular.js delete resource with parameter - angularjs

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.

Answer 2

I had this problem for a while I was using a service to add / delete / update categories. While passing in params for get it worked fine but then when deleting it was giving me a ?id=1234 instead of api/resource/1234
I got around this by making the default param a string.
///Controller
Service.delete({categoryId:id}, function(resp){
console.log(resp)//whatever logic you want in here
});
//SERVICES
$resource('api/resource/:categoryId', {"categoryId":"#categoryId"}, {
query:{method:"GET"},
delete:{method:"DELETE"},
});
Should work and the resulting url will be, originally I had categoryId in the default params as a variable name.
api/resource/1234 etc

Answer 3

Just omit the '#' in the parameter
.factory('reportFactory', ['$resource', 'baseUrl', function ($resource, baseUrl) {
return $resource(baseUrl + '/keys/:id', {}, {
delete: { method: 'DELETE',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
params: {id: 'id'} }
})
}]);
this will give you:
http://localhost:8080/reports/api/keys/b8a8a8e39a8f55da94fdbe6c
without the question mark

Answer 4

If you want to delete a model, there's no need to add params (params does not work for DELETE anyway):
$resource('/users/:id').delete({id: user.id}, function(res) {
...
})
or
$resource('/users/:role/:id').delete({role: 'visitor', id: user.id});
I'm not sure if it's a bug of ngResource.