790044 - Add a way to make a DELETE call on the request API

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 643156

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Hernán Rodriguez Colmeiro (:peregrino)]

It's possible to make POST, GET, and PUT requests with the request API, but not DELETE.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

No HEAD of TRACE either presumably. It might make sense to just have a request(type) method to cover all the other less-used methods.

Comment 2

[Hernán Rodriguez Colmeiro (:peregrino)]

You mean additionally to adding a .delete() method or just use this request(type) for DELETE and all the rest?

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

(In reply to Hernán Rodriguez Colmeiro (:peregrino) from comment #2)
> You mean additionally to adding a .delete() method or just use this
> request(type) for DELETE and all the rest?

The latter would be my suggestion, I'd probably prefer to use that for PUT too but since it already exists there isn't much point in breaking it now.

Comment 4

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

Bug 643156 has a patch to add DELETE.