Playframework Scala - Delete Route problems - scala

Question

I'm working with playframework for final project at university and I'm getting a problem when routing a delete or put method.
When I'm requesting a DELETE or PUT methods I'm getting:
[info] play.api.Play - Application started (Dev)
[debug] a.ErrorHandler - onClientError: statusCode = 404, uri = /Rest/deleteCity, message ="
My JQuery ajax call is:
$("#scalaDelete").click(function(){
$("#result").empty();
$.ajax({
url: "http://localhost:9000/Rest/deleteCity",
method: "DELETE",
data: {city: "Alvorada"},
dataType: "json",
success: function(result){
$("#result").append("Result: "+result.Result);
},
error: function (request, status, error) {
alert(status);
}
});
});
My Route Play Route:
DELETE /Rest/deleteCity controllers.RestController.deleteCity()
My Controller Method:
case class UserDelete(city:String)
class RestController #Inject()(db: Database, cc: ControllerComponents) extends AbstractController(cc) {
val userDeleteForm = Form(
mapping(
"city" -> text
)(UserDelete.apply)(UserDelete.unapply)
)
def deleteCity = Action{ implicit request=>
val userPar = userDeleteForm.bindFromRequest.get
//DatabaseDelete
Ok(jsonResult)
}
}
I've already activated cross domain in chrome, I've used a CORS extension for it.
Thanks for helping

Answer 1

This seems related to Restful http delete in play, i.e. DELETE with data can be sketchy.
Instead of passing data, I would just move this to the url:
DELETE /Rest/deleteCity/:city controllers.RestController.deleteCity(city: String)
# or with a query string
DELETE /Rest/deleteCity controllers.RestController.deleteCity(city: String)
and then do
http://localhost:9000/Rest/deleteCity/Alvorada
# or with a query string
http://localhost:9000/Rest/deleteCity?city=Alvorada
Personally I prefer the latter.

Answer 2

I agree with #AndyHayden.
Play ignores the body of the DELETE request, that is the correct behavior to my mind, but you can work around by explicitly passing a body parser:
def delete = Action(parse.json) { implicit request =>
val json = request.body
val someProp = (json \ "someprop").as[String]
Ok(s"Prop is: $someProp")
}
(this example was given by one of the developers of the Play itself:
https://github.com/playframework/playframework/issues/4606#issuecomment-109192802.)
About the doubts in comments:
I've seen another post here where a guy said some browsers just support get and post method.
POST and GET are only valid for the method attribute of the form tag.
You are using javascript request, so you can use any method that server supports. i.e. DELETE is completely fine there.
But something interesting for you to know is that playframework uses akka and this framework does not support DELETE request for security reasons, in fact it wasn't well explained on post. Then if you wanna make a DELETE method you gotta make a post method for complete your code.
Akka HTTP supports the DELETE request (as well as Play Framework): https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/scala/http/routing-dsl/directives/method-directives/delete.html