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user429400
user429400

Reputation: 3325

nodejs request module parse body

I have the following code:

var express = require('express');
var app = express.createServer();
var request = require('request');

app.use(myMiddleware);
app.listen(5010);

var payload = { id: 1 };

request({
  method: 'POST',
  body:JSON.stringify(payload),
  url: 'http://localhost:5000'
}, function(err, res, body) {
  console.info("Request Done");
})

In my middleware code I want to parse the body and extract the request id, yet for some reason the following code doesn't work (payload is undefined):

  var myMiddleware= function (req, res, next){
  var payload = req.body;
  if (payload.id === 1) console.info("first request!!!!!");
  next();
}

When I try to print "payload" all I get is [object Object].

Could you please tell me how to extract the id, and how to print the attributes of the payload object?

Thanks, Li

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6406

Answers (1)

user429400
user429400

Reputation: 3325

Solved by adding:

app.use(express.bodyParser());

and by adding the following to the request code:

json: true

After adding the json=true attribute I also removed JSON.stringify(...) from the body of the request (now I don't need to stringify the body since it expects a json object)

Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

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