json-parser plugin does not handle DELETE requests

[smackesey]

I'm using Roda to implement a JSONAPI API. I'm attempting to use the json-parser plugin to parse incoming JSON bodies. Unfortunately, this only seems to work for POST and PATCH requests -- it doesn't work for DELETE (and it needs to for JSONAPI). The documentation does not mention that request bodies are parsed only for certain HTTP methods. And when I look at the source, I can't see any way to change this behavior. It seems like the conditions under which the parser is invoked should at least be documented and, even better, configurable.

[jeremyevans]

Are you sure this is an issue with Roda itself? There does not appear to be anything in the json_parser plugin specific to the request method, and changing POST -> DELETE in the request methods results in the specs still passing (modulo one issue where rack will parse request bodies without a content-type only for POST requests).

Can you please provide a minimal self-contained example showing the problem, preferably in the form of a spec?

[smackesey]

Argh, turns out to be an issue with Rack::Test: see here. What should be being passed as a body is instead passed as query params, which json_parser doesn't parse. I thought this was a JSON API issue because only the POST in RequestMethods is defined in the source. Anyway, sorry to post a fake issue and thank you for the prompt response.