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cphill
cphill

Reputation: 5914

ExpressJS SyntaxError: Unexpected token C

I am trying to save my string to a comma separated array, but when I try to use the JSON.parse method, I receive this error upon sending a post method and trying to save a record: 

SyntaxError: Unexpected token c
   at Object.parse (native)
   at router.route.post.get.res.render.blogpost (/Users/user/Desktop/Projects/node/blog/app/routes.js:106:34)

Here is my route (error coming at blogpost.save): 

router.route('/admin/posts/create')

    // START POST method
        .post(function(req, res) {

            console.log("New instance");

            var blogpost = new Blogpost(); // create a new instance of a Blogpost model

            blogpost.title = req.body.title; // set the blog title
            blogpost.featureImage = req.body.featureImage; // set the blog image
            blogpost.blogUrl = blogpost.title.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g,"-");
            blogpost.author = req.body.author; // set the author name
            blogpost.tagline = req.body.tagline; // set the tagline
            blogpost.content = req.body.content; // set the blog content
            blogpost.category = req.body.category; // set the category
            blogpost.tags = JSON.parse(req.body.tags.split(",")); // set the tags
                //Save Blog Post
                blogpost.save(function(err) {
                    if (err)
                        res.send(err);

                    res.redirect(303, '/'); //NEEDS TO BE CHANGED
                });

        }) // END POST method


        .get(isLoggedIn, function(req, res, blogpost) {
            res.render('pages/blogpost-create', {
              blogpost : blogpost
            });
        });

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4125

Answers (1)

adeneo
adeneo

Reputation: 318182

JSON.parse parses a string (of valid JSON) into an object/array.

You already have an array, as you're doing

req.body.tags.split(",")

and split() creates an array. You can't parse an array, but you could stringify it

Upvotes: 4

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