[Catalyst] DELETE through REST and Jemplate

[J. Shirley]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Emmanuel Quevillon <tuco at pasteur.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am playing with REST and Jemplate from the great Tuts from JRock's
> book.
> However, I am facing a problem. I understand well how to retrieve
> data from a REST url and playing Ajax with it, by a GET method.
> However, I don't know how to change the method to DELETE from a
> simple link like:
>
> test.js contains:
>
> function remove_item(id){
>  Jemplate.process('test.tt2',
>                  '[% Catalyst.uri_for("/rest/item/") %]'+id,
>                  '#_item');
> }
>
> template test.tt2:
>
> <a href=3D"#" onclick=3D"remove_item('[% item.id %]'); return
> false;">Remove item</a>
>
> If I code my template like this, it just do a GET request.
> How can I introduce DELETE method  to tell REST API to delete my
> item id?
>
> Sorry if my question seems stupid, I am a bit lost.
> If anybody has any clue, very welcome.
>
> Regards
> --
> -------------------------
> Emmanuel Quevillon
> Biological Software and Databases Group
> Institut Pasteur
> +33 1 44 38 95 98
> tuco at_ pasteur dot fr
> -------------------------
>

You didn't include your remove_item method.  Can you post that?

-J
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