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Matt Boyle
Matt Boyle

Reputation: 385

Post request never getting made, just sends get

I am using Mongoose and nodejs to write an API.

My users.js looks as follow:

var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
var user = require('../models/users.js');


router.post('/',function(req, res, next) {
  console.log("made a post");

            var user2 = new user();     // create a new instance of the Bear model
            user2.firstName = req.body.firstName;  // set the bears name (comes from the request)
        user2.lastName=req.body.lastName;
        user2.email=req.body.email;

            user2.save(function(err) {
                if (err)
                    res.send(err);

            console.log("User created");
            });


        })

//The model acts as our user object...this returns all users.
    .get('/', function(req, res, next) {
      console.log("sending a get request");
        user.find(function(err, users) {
           if (err)
               res.send(err);

           res.json(users);
       });

      })

module.exports = router;

When I send a get request, it works perfectly. However, I am now trying to develop the POST request. I send a request such as the following:

http://localhost:4000/users?firstName=Han&lastName=Bo@[email protected]

and I receive the following in my console:

    sending a get request
GET /users?firstName=Han&lastName=Bo@[email protected]
 200 15.522 ms - 1365

And I receive the output of my GET request in the browser.

I'm new to node and would appreciate some help with this.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 180

Answers (1)

Sulejman Sarajlija
Sulejman Sarajlija

Reputation: 424

You are putting your parameters as URL parameters, while your POST API reads parameters from body of request.

Here is explanation of POST parameters. Also, if you are not already using it, use postman to send requests.

Upvotes: 2

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