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Immo
Immo

Reputation: 601

How to distinguish a request

I am creating an API and I would like to distinguish GET, DELETE, MODIFY, POST requests.

Is it possible to distinguish that from a controller?

For example:

Distinguish: (GET REQUEST)

GET http://myapi.com/POST/1234

From DELETE REQUEST

DELETE http://myapi.com/POST/1234

Can I do that from post controller?

Thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 213

Answers (2)

Platinum Azure
Platinum Azure

Reputation: 46193

If you map your routes RESTfully (see this tutorial), the DELETE verb on that resource will map to a different controller action than the GET request.

GET maps to show and DELETE maps to destroy.

Upvotes: 2

Maurício Linhares
Maurício Linhares

Reputation: 40333

Inside a controller action method, do:

request.method

It's going to say which HTTP method was used.

You can also use:

request.get?
request.post?
request.delete?

And so on.

For full documentation on the class, check here.

Upvotes: 3

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