DELETE Request not working , Returns status code 200

Question

I am trying to fire a DELETE request using HttpUrlConnection in android,I am setting the setRequestmethod as DELETE and getting a 200 as response code. The Item is not getting deleted. The async I am using is below.

private class DeleteTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {
    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(String... urls) {
        String result = null;
        URL url = null;
        try {
            url = new URL(urls[0]);
            Log.i("URL to access :", urls[0]);
        } catch (MalformedURLException exception) {
            exception.printStackTrace();
        }
        HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection = null;
        try {
            httpURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            httpURLConnection.setRequestMethod("DELETE");
            httpURLConnection.setRequestProperty("charset", "utf-8");
            httpURLConnection.setUseCaches(false);
            System.out.println("ResponseCode: "+httpURLConnection.getResponseCode());
            if(httpURLConnection.getResponseCode() == 204){
                Log.d(TAG,"Deleted");
            }
        } catch (IOException exception) {
            exception.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            if (httpURLConnection != null) {
                httpURLConnection.disconnect();
            }
        }
        return null;
    }
    }
}

It looks like the setRequestMethod() is not working and its taking the Request as a GET and giving me a 200 !!

I tested this in postman(a chrome extension) and it was working fine , If it was a backend issue then from postman also it should fail.
okHttp: I was trying to make this work on okHttp also for that

Request request = new Request.Builder().url(url.toString()).patch(body).build();

How will I make up this for delete, because delete request dosent have a body

Volly: I've tried out the google volly library too..

RequestQueue requestQueue = Volley.newRequestQueue(TimerSummary.this);
    StringRequest request = new StringRequest(Request.Method.DELETE, uri, new Response.Listener<String>() {
        @Override
        public void onResponse(String response) {
            Log.d(TAG,"Response: "+response);
        }
    }, new Response.ErrorListener() {
        @Override
        public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {
            Log.d(TAG,"Error: "+error);
        }
    });
    requestQueue.add(request);

This also returns like GET request, I am getting the item as json which was supposed to be deleted.

any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

It was actually a typo!!! I am an idiot!Both of my methods work fine ,but I am Now using Google's volly library for network related things.

I was missing a "/" before the "?" before appending parameters with the URL