Groovy : Cannot set a request body for a DELETE/GET method - groovy

Question

When i am executing this via curl its working :
curl -u -X DELETE -H 'accept:application/json' http://localhost:13000/test/test_userid"
I made a common function which accept methodtype ( GET, POST, DELETE etc) and content type( JASON, TEXT ) for the httpbuilder.
def public httpRequest(String url, String content, Method requestType, ContentType contentType)
{
try{
def myClient = new HTTPBuilder(url)
myClient.request(requestType,contentType) { req ->
headers.'Content-Type' = 'application/json'
body=content
response.success = { resp, data ->
def reponse=[resp:resp,data:data]
return reponse
}
response.failure = { resp ->
println 'Response Code '+resp.statusLine
}
// called only for a 404 (not found) status code:
response.'404' = { resp ->
println 'Not found'
}
}
}
catch(Exception e)
{
println "error"+e.getProperties()
}
}
Now if i make a POST request , its working.
However if i make a GET or DELETE request using
def response = httpRequest(url,"",DELETE,JSON)
or
def response = httpRequest(url,"",GET,TEXT)
its shows the following error :-
error[message:Cannot set a request body for a DELETE/GET method, class:class java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
Do i need to make a separate function for GET/DELETE?
because
myClient.request(requestType) { req ->
headers.'Content-Type' = 'application/json'
body=content
response.success = { resp, data ->
def reponse=[resp:resp,data:data]
return reponse
}
response.failure = { resp ->
println 'Response Code '+resp.statusLine
}
// called only for a 404 (not found) status code:
response.'404' = { resp ->
println 'Not found'
}
}
}
WORKS

Answer 1

Delete and Get wont accept Body , hence the solution is to make a check and execute accordingly
if(requestType.equals(DELETE)||requestType.equals(GET))
{
try{
def myClient = new HTTPBuilder(url)
myClient.request(requestType) { req ->
headers.'Content-Type' = 'application/json'
headers.Accept = 'application/json'
response.success = { resp, data ->
def reponse=[resp:resp,data:data]
return reponse
}
response.failure = { resp ->
println 'Response Code '+resp.statusLine
}
// called only for a 404 (not found) status code:
response.'404' = { resp ->
println 'Not found'
}
}
}
catch(Exception e)
{
println "error"+e.getProperties()
}
}
else
<---post request -->