HttpMethod.custom doesn't work, Unsupported HTTP method

[didlich]

I need to extend the http methods, so I used HttpMethod.custom to register my own http method.

val BOLT = HttpMethod.custom(
"BOLT", 
safe = false, 
idempotent = true, 
requestEntityAcceptance = Expected
)

It shows me the message:

Illegal request, responding with status '501 Not Implemented': Unsupported HTTP method: BOLT

I prepared a working Scala/Akka app in this repo, which shows the problem:
https://github.com/didlich/akka-http-custom-method

[jrudolph]

@didlich custom HttpMethods need to be registered in ParserSettings to apply. Basically the same procedure as shown in the documentation for status codes needs to be used to register a custom http method. You need to change one line to

val parserSettings = ParserSettings(system).withCustomMethods(BOLT)
[...]

It seems this haven't yet been documented properly, so let's keep this ticket open to improve the documentation.

[ktoso]

We have it documented here: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/10.0.4/scala/http/routing-dsl/directives/method-directives/extractMethod.html#custom-http-method

So either linking or duplicating the example in that part of the docs would be a good idea it seems

PR very welcome to clean this up!

[didlich]

@jrudolph, @ktoso thanks for the hint, google was not able to find the proper text in the doc :-)

[richardimaoka]

I can work on this if @didlich is not submitting a Pull Request?

[ktoso]

Yes please Richard :-)

[ktoso]

Thanks a ton @richard-imaoka !