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Reputation: 438

Express post endpoint receiving empty body

UPDATE

It looks like the 3rd party app is sending the data with Content-Type: text/json. I need to figure out how to configure express middleware to accept */* Content-Type

I am trying to expose an endpoint in Express to receive a post request (webhook notification) from a 3rd party app. Essentially, when a user clicks a button in the 3rd party app it sends a post request to the express endpoint with data.

This is what my code looks like:

app.use(express.json()); // for parsing application/json
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true })); // for parsing application/x-www-form-urlencoded

    app.post('/notify', (req, res, next) => {
        if (!req.body) {
            return res.status(400).send('Bad Request');
        }

        console.log(req.body);
        res.sendStatus(200);
    });

When I post to this endpoint with Postman (Postman w/ payload --> My Endpoint), everything works and the payload is present in req.body contains data.

When the 3rd party data posts to this endpoint (3rd Party w/ payload --> My Endpoint), the body contains nothing and when logged it prints {}.

If I use an online tool like https://webhook.site to receive the data from the 3rd party (3rd Party w/ payload --> Webhook test site), the entire payload is present in the req.body.

I have no idea why it doesn't work and have tried to change the middleware multiple different times.

I have tried the following links but none worked.

Express app empty request body with custom content type headers

Express receiving empty object

Node.js: Receiving empty body when submitting form.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 828

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 438

The issue is the 3rd party app was sending the raw json data with the content-type header as text/plain. I fixed the issue with:

app.use(express.json({ type: '*/*' }));

Upvotes: 4

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