Is there a way to pass header information in Spring RestTemplate DELETE call

Question

In Spring RestTemplate we are having the following methods for delete.

@Override
    public void delete(String url, Object... urlVariables) throws RestClientException {
        execute(url, HttpMethod.DELETE, null, null, urlVariables);
    }

    @Override
    public void delete(String url, Map<String, ?> urlVariables) throws RestClientException {
        execute(url, HttpMethod.DELETE, null, null, urlVariables);
    }

    @Override
    public void delete(URI url) throws RestClientException {
        execute(url, HttpMethod.DELETE, null, null);
    }

None of these methods are having any place to pass header information. Is there any other method which can be used for DELETE request with header information?

Answer 1

You can use the exchange method (which takes any HTTP request type), rather than using the delete method:

MultiValueMap<String, String> headers = new LinkedMultiValueMap<>();
headers.add("X-XSRF-HEADER", "BlahBlah");
headers.add("Authorization", "Basic " + blahblah);
etc...

HttpEntity<?> request = new HttpEntity<Object>(headers);
restTemplate.exchange(url, HttpMethod.DELETE, request, String.class);