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Reputation: 1341

How to receive post request value from send using request in Nodejs?

I am using the request package in Nodejs to send a post request to another Nodejs server:

var options = {
    method: 'POST',
    url: 'http://12.12.12.12:3230/',
    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
    body: { 
            Num:1212,
            Cust:'TEST'

    },
    json: true
};

   request(options, function (error, response, body) {
if (error) throw new Error(error);

console.log(body);
// Process the body and return the response.
// return res.send(body);
});

In my another Nodejs Server:

app.post("/",(req,res)=>{
   console.log(req.body.Num)
    console.log(`Someone sent a post request`)

})

My second Nodejs server, where I am listening for POST request displays the following in the console:

undefined
Someone sent a post request

How do I receive the value of the post request in this case?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 70

Answers (4)

Afnan Ahmad
Afnan Ahmad

Reputation: 13

You can have a look at bodyParser middleware in express

https://www.npmjs.com/package/body-parser

Upvotes: 0

Mohammed Amir Ansari
Mohammed Amir Ansari

Reputation: 2401

make sure to add bodyParser in your backend middleware, something like:

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

and require it on top like:

const bodyParser = require('body-parser');

hope this helps :)

Upvotes: 1

Andrei
Andrei

Reputation: 410

You also need to use a body parsing middleware above all routes such as express.json(), ie:

app.use(express.json())

Upvotes: 0

Barmar
Barmar

Reputation: 782407

You need to convert the body to JSON.

body: JSON.stringify({ Num:1212, Cust:'TEST' }),

Upvotes: 0

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