mca blog

2009-02-01

ok, i put my code where my mouth was. i posted an example that shows how easy it is to support HTTP DELETE in modern browsers. no need to overload POST at all.

ok, gotta do this...

i read this post today and saw this bit of ASP.NET MVC code and i died a little inside:

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
public ActionResult Delete(int id) {
  //Delete that stuff!
}

AYFKM? srsly?

please, i'm begging you. stop ignoring the full set of HTTP methods. i covered this faux paux already .

with all the might and power of MSFT; all the creativity that went into building the MVC library for ASP.NET; all the effort made to integrate the fantasic jQuery client-side library into the ASP.NET MVC; and you -still- ignore PUT and DELETE?

it's not because you don't have ability. you've got the best possible set of tooling and libraries available on the Windows platform!

[sigh]...

people, if someone stands up and stage or in front of a class and shows you this code and tells you it's an acceptable way to do things, just. say. no.

i'm not kidding.