Body of Http.DELETE request in Angular2
<p>I'm trying to talk to a somewhat RESTful API from an Angular 2 frontend.</p>

<p>To remove some item from a collection, I need to send some other data in addition to the removée unique id(that can be appended to the url), namely an authentication token, some collection info and some ancilliary data.</p>

<p>The most straightforward way I've found to do so is putting the authentication token in the request Headers, and other data in the body.</p>

<p>However, the Http module of Angular 2 doesn't quite approve of a DELETE request with a body, and trying to make this request</p>

<pre class="lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>let headers= new Headers();
headers.append('access-token', token);

let body= JSON.stringify({
    target: targetId,
    subset: "fruits",
    reason: "rotten"
});

let options= new RequestOptions({headers:headers});
this.http.delete('http://testAPI:3000/stuff', body,options).subscribe((ok)=&gt;{console.log(ok)}); &lt;------line 67
</code></pre>

<p>gives this error</p>

<pre><code>app/services/test.service.ts(67,4): error TS2346: Supplied parameters do not match any signature of call target.
</code></pre>

<p>Now, am I doing something wrong syntax-wise? I'm pretty sure a DELETE body is supported per RFC</p>

<p>Are there better ways to send that data?</p>

<p>Or should I just dump it in headers and call it a day?</p>

<p>Any insight on this conundrum would be appreciated</p>