Java HTTP DELETE with Request Body

Question

I have an external API which uses DELETE with the body(JSON). I make use of Postman REST Client and get the delete done with request body and it works fine. I am trying to a

Answer 1

Isn't easy just to override the getMethod() method of the HttpPost class?

private String curl(                    // Return JSON String
        String method,                  // HTTP method, for this example the method parameter should be "DELETE", but it could be PUT, POST, or GET.
        String url,                     // Target URL  
        String path,                    // API Path
        Map queryParams,// Query map forms URI
        Map postParams) // Post Map serialized to JSON and is put in the header
        throws Error,               // when API returns an error
        ConnectionClosedException       // when we cannot contact the API
{
   HttpClient client = HttpClients.custom()
            .setDefaultRequestConfig(
                    RequestConfig.custom()
                            .setCookieSpec(CookieSpecs.STANDARD)
                            .build()
            ).build();


    HttpPost req = new HttpPost(){
        @Override
        public String getMethod() {
            // lets override the getMethod since it is the only
            // thing that differs between each of the subclasses
            // of HttpEntityEnclosingRequestBase. Let's just return
            // our method parameter in the curl method signature.
            return method;
        }
    };

    // set headers
    req.setHeader("user-agent", "Apache");
    req.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
    req.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");

    try {
        // prepare base url
        URIBuilder uriBuilder = new URIBuilder(url + path);

        if (method.equals("GET")){
            queryParams.forEach((k, v)-> uriBuilder.addParameter(k, v.toString()));
        }else{
            String postPramsJson = new Gson().toJson(postParams);
            req.setEntity(new StringEntity(postPramsJson));
        }

        // set the uri
        req.setURI(uriBuilder.build().normalize());

        // execute the query
        final HttpResponse response = client.execute(req);

        //
        if (response.getEntity() != null) {
            if(response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == 200){
                 return EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
            }
            logger.error("ERROR: Response code " + response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() +
                     ", respnse: " + EntityUtils.toString(responseEntry));
        }
        throw new Error("HTTP Error");
    } catch (Exception e) {
        logger.error("Connection error", e);
        throw new ConnectionClosedException("Cannot connect to " + url);
    }
}

The point is rather than having to add another class to your package... Why not just override getMethod() in an already sub-classed object of HttpEntityEnclosingRequestBase?