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Reputation: 3272

Express body-parser: req.body returns empty object

I've got a simple Express server that uses the body-parser module to access POST-parameters. The app looks like this:

/index.js:

'use strict';

const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const apiRouter = require('./api/routes.js');


// Set our port for the server application
const port = process.env.PORT || 8080;


// Register the routes for the /api prefix
app.use('/api', apiRouter);


// Start server
app.listen(port);
console.log('The server is running on port ' + port);

/api/routes.js:

'use strict';

const express = require('express');
const router = express.Router();
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');

// Configure app to use bodyParser(). This will let us get the data from a POST
router.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
router.use(bodyParser.json());


// START ROUTES

router.post('/devices', (req, res) => {
  console.log(req.body); // Returns {}
  res.json(req.body);
});

module.exports = router;

The problem is that the req.body object is empty (Always returns an empty object {}). Since I already loaded the body-parser middleware I have no idea what else I can try. I hope you have any suggestions.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1417

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 3272

I used the app Postman for testing. It appeared that it sent the POST data as form-data instead of x-www-form-urlencoded. After changing this setting the data showed up.

Upvotes: 2

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