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user4046073
user4046073

Reputation: 871

Node.js app receives empty response from GET request to API

I'm new to node.js so I'll try my best to explain the problem here. Let me know if any clerification is needed.

In my node.js application I'm trying to take a code (which was received from the response of the 1st call to an API), and use that a code to make a 2nd request(GET request) to another API service. The callback url of the 1st call is /pass. However I got an empty response from the service for this 2nd call.

My understanding is that after the call back from the 1st call, the function in app.get('/pass', function (req, res).. gets invoked and it sends a GET request. What am I doing wrong here? Many thanks in advance!

Here is the part where I try to make a GET request from node.js server and receive an empty response:

    app.get('/pass', function (req, res){

    var options = {  
        url: 'https://the url that I make GET request to',
        method: 'GET',
        headers: {
            'authorization_code': code,
            'Customer-Id':'someID',
            'Customer-Secret':'somePassword'
        }
    };

    request(options, function(err, res, body) {  
        console.log(res);
    });
});

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2970

Answers (1)

reedb89
reedb89

Reputation: 382

Im a little confused by what you are asking so ill just try to cover what i think you're looking for.

app.get('/pass', (req, res) => {
    res.send("hello!");      // localhost:port/pass will return hello 
})

Now, if you are trying to call a get request from the request library when the /pass endpoint is called things are still similar. First, i think you can remove the 'method' : 'GET' keys and values as they are not necessary. Now the code will be mostly the same as before except for the response.

app.get('/pass', (req, res) => {
    var options = {  
        url: 'https://the url that I make GET request to',
        headers: {
            'authorization_code': code,
            'Customer-Id':'someID',
            'Customer-Secret':'somePassword'
        }
    };

    request(options, function(err, res, body) {  
    // may need to JSONparse the body before sending depending on what is to be expected.
        res.send(body); // this sends the data back 
    });
});

Upvotes: 2

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