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Reputation: 4638

Express app.post request not responding to Postman POST request

I'm trying to emit a simple POST request using Postman to my express app, however the post request is timing out.

Here is the request:

<code>http://localhost:3000/?inviteCode=12</code>

And here is the app:

import express from 'express'
import bodyParser from 'body-parser'
import path from 'path'

const app = express()

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

app.post('/', (req,res) => {
  console.log(req.body)

  if (req.body.inviteCode === "12") {
      res.json({value: "success"}) 
  } else {
      res.json({value: "fail"})
  }
})

app.listen(process.env.PORT || 3000, () => {
  console.log(`App listening on ${process.env.PORT || 3000}`)
})

console.log(req.body) prints out an empty object {}

Any idea what could be going wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 639

Answers (1)

MattMS
MattMS

Reputation: 1156

You are not including inviteCode in the POST parameters in Postman (as seen in your screenshot, the key-value entry under the "Body" tab), instead you are passing inviteCode as a URL query parameter, which will be set in req.query.inviteCode.

To use it from the query parameter (in the URL), matching your Postman request:

app.post('/', (req,res) => {
  req.query.inviteCode === "99" ? res.json({value: "success"}) : res.json({value: "fail"})
})

Or to use it in the POST body, which requires fixing your Postman request:

app.post('/', (req,res) => {
  console.log(req.body)

  req.body.inviteCode === "99" ? res.json({value: "success"}) : res.json({value: "fail"})
})

Upvotes: 1

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