How do I check if query string has values in Express.js/Node.js?

Question

How do I check if a query string passed to an Express.js application contains any values? If I have an API URL that could be either: http://example.com/api/objects or http://example.com/api/objects?name=itemName, what conditional statements work to determine which I am dealing with?

My current code is below, and it always evaluates to the 'should have no string' option.

if (req.query !== {}) {
    console.log('should have no query string');
}
else {
    console.log('should have query string');
}

Answer 1

All you need to do is check the length of keys in your Object, like this,

Object.keys(req.query).length === 0

Sidenote: You are implying the if-else in wrong way,

if (req.query !== {})     // this will run when your req.query is 'NOT EMPTY', i.e it has some query string.

Answer 2

If you want to check if there is no query string, you can do a regex search,

if (!/\?.+/.test(req.url) {
    console.log('should have no query string');
}
else {
    console.log('should have query string');
}

If you are looking for a single param try this

if (!req.query.name) {
    console.log('should have no query string');
}
else {
    console.log('should have query string');
}