Calling AxiosRef with method and data as empty object not working - axios

Question

I am working in a Nest TypeScript work where I would like to call a http request using AxiosRefby passing the method.
Means instead of calling as this.httpService.axiosRef.get(url, {headers}) I would like to invoke as this.httpService.axiosRef({method, url, headers}).
And there I am seeing some issue:
Here is my working code snippet:
async request<T = any>(creds: CredentialObj, method: Method, data: any, query?: Record<string, string>): Promise<T> {
const headers = this.getHeaders(creds);
const timeout = +(process.env.HTTP_CALL_TIMEOUT || 10000);
const url: string = `<the URL>`;
return this.httpService
.axiosRef.get(url, { headers })
.then((response: AxiosResponse<T>) => this.handleHttpResponse(response))
.catch((error: AxiosError) => this.handleHttpReject(error));
}
But If I change the axiosRef like this:
console.log(`Method: ${method}`);
console.log(`Data: ${JSON.stringify(data)}`);
return this.httpService
.axiosRef({ method, url, headers, data})
.then((response: AxiosResponse<T>) => this.handleHttpResponse(response))
.catch((error: AxiosError) => this.handleHttpReject(error));
It does not work and gives an error:
Method: get
Data: {}
Error: Request failed with status code 400
at createError (..\node_modules\axios\lib\core\createError.js:16:15)
at settle (...\nest-services\node_modules\axios\lib\core\settle.js:17:12)
at IncomingMessage.handleStreamEnd (C:\Users\pradipm\clients\CloudManager\cm_12\occm\service-infra\nest-services\node_modules\axios\lib\adapters\http.js:260:11)
at IncomingMessage.emit (node:events:525:35)
at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1358:12)
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21)
It's just an empty data object.
Actually I want to make it like this way of passing the method name such that I can use it for all REST API verbs as a common util routine. For cases other than get (e.g. post, patch) we need to pass the payload. Hence trying to make a single utility for the same.
My axios version is: "axios": "^0.21.1",