I am puzzled by the fact that the req.body appears to be empty... app.js utilizes the body-parser middleware()
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var index = require('./routes/index');
var users = require('./routes/users');
var app = express();
// view engine setup
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.use(logger('dev'));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
// add baseurl
app.use('/api', index);
app.use('/api', users);
user.js
router.route('/user')
.post(function (req, res, next) {
console.log(req.body);
console.log(req.headers);
//console.log(JSON.parse(Object.keys(req.body)[0]));
res.json({title: 'RESTful: POST...'});
});
I have checked the headers and they are printing fine. However, despite trying to parse the result using JSON.parse(Object.keys(req.body)[0]) based on a similar question, it did not provide the expected outcome for me. I sent the POST request using Postman.
{ 'cache-control': 'no-cache',
'postman-token': 'db7766d7-767c-4d33-be3a-acfa18ac1d9c',
'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'user-agent': 'PostmanRuntime/6.4.1',
accept: '*/*',
host: 'localhost:3000',
'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
'content-length': '0',
connection: 'keep-alive' }