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Gosmith
Gosmith

Reputation: 469

post creates document but data not sent

sending form data to mongodb with mongoose and express - the document is created with an id but the form data does not get sent

the schema

const reportSchema = mongoose.Schema({
      project: [
        {
        studio: String,
        code: String,
        name: String
        }
      ],
      },
    {
      collection: 'reports'
    }
);

module.exports = mongoose.model('Report', reportSchema);

and the route

app.post("/", (req, res) => {
  const report = new Report({
    project: {
      studio: req.body.studio,
      code: req.body.code,
      name: req.body.name
    }
  });
  report.save(err => {
    if (err) return res.status(404).send({ message: err.message });

    return res.send({ report });
  });

sending a post request in postman creates a document with an empty array.

The post looks like

{
    "project": {
        "studio": "main",
        "code": "411",
        "name": "some project"
    }
}

thanks for any help

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updating the route to 

app.post("/", (req, res) => {
  const report = new Report({
    project: {
      studio: req.body.project.studio,
      code: req.body.project.code,
      name: req.body.project.name
    }
  });

Returns an undefined error

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 73

Answers (1)

Cuong Le Ngoc
Cuong Le Ngoc

Reputation: 11975

You sent an object with project field in the req.body so you need to get it in this way:

const report = new Report({
  project: {
    studio: req.body.project.studio,
    code: req.body.project.code,
    name: req.body.project.name
  }
});

If it still doen't work, maybe the Content-Type of your request is not application/json. Try adding it to the request header.

Note: Make sure you have body-parser in your app.

Upvotes: 1

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