In Apigility, how do I access a DELETE request's body content

Question

I am building an API with Apigility. I am tied to a backend, where deleting a resource requires additional data, not just the resource ID taken from the URL. So I need to read a parameter fom a DELETE request's body.

While in POST request's create() method I can simply access the $data parameter, this does not work with DELETE methods, because only $id is provided.

Accessing $this->getEvent()->getRequest(); in my Resource classes' delete() method, I see the request's body content (form-data) wrapped into a property called 'content' - as a string.

Can someone point me at what I am missing to access the body's key-value pairs?

Answer 1

Apigility does not expect any data to be passed to a DELETE request, so it does not pass it to the event params. You can just retrieve it from the request as you discovered and do the json_decode yourself.

public function delete($id)
{
    $body = $this->getEvent()->getRequest()->getContent();
    $data = json_decode($body, true);
}