Express + Postman, req.body is empty

Question

I know this has been asked multiple times, but I have been looking around and still can't find an answer to my problem.

Here is my code, I make sure to use and configure body parser before defining the routes. I'm only using .json() with bodyParser because right now I'm only testing a POST function, but I've even tried with app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));

var express = require('express'),     bodyParser = require('body-parser'),     app = express();  app.use(bodyParser.json()); app.set('port', (process.env.PORT || 5000));  app.listen(app.get('port'), function() {     console.log("Node app is running at localhost:" + app.get('port')) });  app.post('/itemSearch', function(req, res) {     //var Keywords = req.body.Keywords;     console.log("Yoooooo");     console.log(req.headers);     console.log(req.body);     res.status(200).send("yay"); }); 

Here is how I use Postman to test this route.

and here is the response I receive

Node app is running at localhost:5000 Yoooooo { host: 'localhost:5000',   connection: 'keep-alive',   'content-length': '146',   'cache-control': 'no-cache',   origin: 'chrome-extension://fhbjgbiflinjbdggehcddcbncdddomop',   'content-type': 'multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundarynJtRFnukjOQDaHgU',   'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.101 Safari/537.36',   'postman-token': '984b101b-7780-5d6e-5a24-ad2c89b492fc',   accept: '*/*',   'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate',   'accept-language': 'en-GB,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6' } {} 

At this point I would really appreciate any help. Thanks.

Answer 1

After spending a few hours I realized need to change the Raw type in postman to JSON

Answer 2

AFAIK you need to use the Body-Parser : https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser

bodyParser = require('body-parser').json(); app.post('/itemSearch', bodyParser, function(req, res) {   //var Keywords = req.body.Keywords;   console.log("Yoooooo");   console.log(req.headers);   console.log(req.body);   res.status(200).send("yay"); }); 

Then try with PostMan setting the body as raw json:

{   "test": "yay" }