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Request Methods and Method Spoofing

Understand how AdonisJs manages request methods using the request object. Explore methods like request.all(), request.input(), and learn how to implement method spoofing enabling PUT and DELETE in HTML forms.

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We can create routes to URLs in start/route.js. For each URL request, AdonisJs creates a request object with the global middleware. The global middleware that does all of this is called BodyParser and is installed by default and registered in start/kernel.js. When a user submits a form, each input field, the HTTP method, the user’s IP address, etc. can be read using this request object.

Request methods

The following are some useful request methods:

Method Description
request.all()
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