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node.jsexpressbody-parser
Manivannan
Manivannan

Reputation: 3254

nodejs request.body returns empty object {}

I am using following code, request.body returns {} i would expect my output as {username:"Mani",password:"pass"} please help me to fix if anything wrong in this code sample.

app.js

var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var express = require('express');
var app = express();

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));

app.post('/', function(request, response){
  console.log(request.body);      // your JSON
  response.send(request.body);    // echo the result back
});

app.listen(3000, function () {
  console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!');
});

npm version:

express 4.14.0

body-parser 1.15.2

url http://localhost:3000/

method: POST

header: Content-Type: application/json

request payload : {username:"Mani",password:"pass"}

output of app.js console is {}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2873

Answers (2)

Umakant Mane
Umakant Mane

Reputation: 1021

try this, "content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", must use this 

 // chnage content-type to content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded 

 var settings = {
 "async": true,
 "crossDomain": true,
 "url": "http://localhost:3000/",
"method": "POST",
"headers": {
"content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
 },
"data": {
"name": "mane"
} 
 }

 $.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
 console.log(response);
 });

Upvotes: 0

tcooc
tcooc

Reputation: 21199

It appears that your body is a json document. You will need to configure body-parser to accept json:

app.use(bodyParser.json());

Upvotes: 1

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