Add the following line in addition to your current bodyParser app.use() right before: app.use(bodyParser.json()); This will enable bodyParser to parse content type of application/json. Hopefully that helps!
The problem arises because in the HTTP protocol, headers are case-insensitive. This means that content-type, Content-Type, and coNTEnt-tYPe all refer to the same header, and the Express framework needs to be able to handle any of them. The different between req.headers (the object) and req.header (the function) is simply this: If you want to get … Read more
In general, an express app needs to specify the appropriate body-parser middleware in order for req.body to contain the body. [EDITED] If you required parsing of url-encoded (non-multipart) form data, as well as JSON, try adding: // Put this statement near the top of your module var bodyParser = require(‘body-parser’); // Put these statements before … Read more
Okay, contrary to what I previously thought, further research shows that extended: true and app.use(bodyParser.json()) can be used together. So it is not only extended: false that uses it. The statement app.use(bodyParser.json()) is to be used independently, whether you set extended as true or false. app.use(bodyParser.json()) basically tells the system that you want json to … Read more
If you are using Express 4.16+ you don’t have to import body-parser anymore. You can do it just like this: app.use(express.urlencoded({extended: true})); app.use(express.json()) // To parse the incoming requests with JSON payloads
If extended is false, you can not post “nested object” person[name] = ‘cw’ // Nested Object = { person: { name: cw } } If extended is true, you can do whatever way that you like.
Edit: in 2019-april-2 in express@4.16.0 the body-parser middleware is included in express, so you don’t need to install body-parser separately anymore. for more details see this OLD: To handle HTTP POST requests in Express.js version 4 and above, you need to install the middleware module called body-parser. body-parser extracts the entire body portion of an … Read more