Handle delete device requests with no body

We should probably return a 401 rather than a 400 for existing clients that
don't know they have to do the UIA dance to delete a device.

synapse/rest/client/v2_alpha/devices.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import logging
 
 from twisted.internet import defer
 
-from synapse.api import constants
+from synapse.api import constants, errors
 from synapse.http import servlet
 from ._base import client_v2_patterns
 
@@ -72,8 +72,17 @@ class DeviceRestServlet(servlet.RestServlet):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def on_DELETE(self, request, device_id):
+        try:
             body = servlet.parse_json_object_from_request(request)
 
+        except errors.SynapseError as e:
+            if e.errcode == errors.Codes.NOT_JSON:
+                # deal with older clients which didn't pass a JSON dict
+                # the same as those that pass an empty dict
+                body = {}
+            else:
+                raise
+
         authed, result, params, _ = yield self.auth_handler.check_auth([
             [constants.LoginType.PASSWORD],
         ], body, self.hs.get_ip_from_request(request))