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I have a Node.js route that sends back some text and logs the request:
app.post('/registerUser', function (req, res) {
res.send('Hello World post!')
console.log(req);
})
Then I hit that route with curl, like so:
curl --data "username==test&foo==bar" http://localhost:3000/registerUser
And that's what I'm getting out via node:
IncomingMessage {
_readableState:
ReadableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
buffer: BufferList { head: null, tail: null, length: 0 },
length: 0,
pipes: null,
pipesCount: 0,
flowing: null,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: false,
sync: true,
needReadable: false,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
resumeScheduled: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
ranOut: false,
awaitDrain: 0,
readingMore: true,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events: {},
_eventsCount: 0,
_maxListeners: undefined,
socket:
Socket {
connecting: false,
_hadError: false,
_handle:
TCP {
bytesRead: 183,
_externalStream: {},
fd: 14,
reading: true,
owner: [Circular],
onread: [Function: onread],
onconnection: null,
writeQueueSize: 0 },
_parent: null,
_host: null,
_readableState:
ReadableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
buffer: [Object],
length: 0,
pipes: null,
pipesCount: 0,
flowing: true,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: true,
sync: false,
needReadable: true,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
resumeScheduled: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
ranOut: false,
awaitDrain: 0,
readingMore: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events:
{ end: [Object],
finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
_socketEnd: [Function: onSocketEnd],
drain: [Object],
timeout: [Function],
error: [Function: socketOnError],
close: [Object],
data: [Function: socketOnData],
resume: [Function: onSocketResume],
pause: [Function: onSocketPause] },
_eventsCount: 10,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_writableState:
WritableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
needDrain: false,
ending: false,
ended: false,
finished: false,
decodeStrings: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
length: 0,
writing: false,
corked: 0,
sync: false,
bufferProcessing: false,
onwrite: [Function],
writecb: null,
writelen: 0,
bufferedRequest: null,
lastBufferedRequest: null,
pendingcb: 3,
prefinished: false,
errorEmitted: false,
bufferedRequestCount: 0,
corkedRequestsFree: [Object] },
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
destroyed: false,
_bytesDispatched: 222,
_sockname: null,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server:
Server {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_connections: 1,
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
_unref: false,
allowHalfOpen: true,
pauseOnConnect: false,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
_pendingResponseData: 0,
_connectionKey: '6::::3000' },
_server:
Server {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_connections: 1,
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
_unref: false,
allowHalfOpen: true,
pauseOnConnect: false,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
_pendingResponseData: 0,
_connectionKey: '6::::3000' },
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext:
TimersList {
_idleNext: [Circular],
_idlePrev: [Circular],
_timer: [Object],
_unrefed: true,
msecs: 120000 },
_idlePrev:
TimersList {
_idleNext: [Circular],
_idlePrev: [Circular],
_timer: [Object],
_unrefed: true,
msecs: 120000 },
_idleStart: 144720,
parser:
HTTPParser {
'0': [Function: parserOnHeaders],
'1': [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
'2': [Function: parserOnBody],
'3': [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
'4': [Function: onParserExecute],
_headers: [],
_url: '',
_consumed: true,
socket: [Circular],
incoming: [Circular],
outgoing: null,
maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
onIncoming: [Function: parserOnIncoming] },
on: [Function: socketOnWrap],
_paused: false,
read: [Function],
_consuming: true,
_httpMessage:
ServerResponse {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 1,
_maxListeners: undefined,
output: [],
outputEncodings: [],
outputCallbacks: [],
outputSize: 0,
writable: true,
_last: false,
upgrading: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
_removedHeader: [Object],
_contentLength: 17,
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: true,
_headerSent: true,
socket: [Circular],
connection: [Circular],
_header: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nX-Powered-By: Express\r\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\nContent-Length: 17\r\nETag: W/"11-5i2g3OJs8No9M8PUhnLubxYJmZY"\r\nDate: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:06:49 GMT\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\n\r\n',
_headers: [Object],
_headerNames: [Object],
_onPendingData: [Function: updateOutgoingData],
req: [Circular],
locals: {},
statusMessage: 'OK',
statusCode: 200 } },
connection:
Socket {
connecting: false,
_hadError: false,
_handle:
TCP {
bytesRead: 183,
_externalStream: {},
fd: 14,
reading: true,
owner: [Circular],
onread: [Function: onread],
onconnection: null,
writeQueueSize: 0 },
_parent: null,
_host: null,
_readableState:
ReadableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
buffer: [Object],
length: 0,
pipes: null,
pipesCount: 0,
flowing: true,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: true,
sync: false,
needReadable: true,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
resumeScheduled: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
ranOut: false,
awaitDrain: 0,
readingMore: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events:
{ end: [Object],
finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
_socketEnd: [Function: onSocketEnd],
drain: [Object],
timeout: [Function],
error: [Function: socketOnError],
close: [Object],
data: [Function: socketOnData],
resume: [Function: onSocketResume],
pause: [Function: onSocketPause] },
_eventsCount: 10,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_writableState:
WritableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
needDrain: false,
ending: false,
ended: false,
finished: false,
decodeStrings: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
length: 0,
writing: false,
corked: 0,
sync: false,
bufferProcessing: false,
onwrite: [Function],
writecb: null,
writelen: 0,
bufferedRequest: null,
lastBufferedRequest: null,
pendingcb: 3,
prefinished: false,
errorEmitted: false,
bufferedRequestCount: 0,
corkedRequestsFree: [Object] },
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
destroyed: false,
_bytesDispatched: 222,
_sockname: null,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server:
Server {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_connections: 1,
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
_unref: false,
allowHalfOpen: true,
pauseOnConnect: false,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
_pendingResponseData: 0,
_connectionKey: '6::::3000' },
_server:
Server {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_connections: 1,
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
_unref: false,
allowHalfOpen: true,
pauseOnConnect: false,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
_pendingResponseData: 0,
_connectionKey: '6::::3000' },
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext:
TimersList {
_idleNext: [Circular],
_idlePrev: [Circular],
_timer: [Object],
_unrefed: true,
msecs: 120000 },
_idlePrev:
TimersList {
_idleNext: [Circular],
_idlePrev: [Circular],
_timer: [Object],
_unrefed: true,
msecs: 120000 },
_idleStart: 144720,
parser:
HTTPParser {
'0': [Function: parserOnHeaders],
'1': [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
'2': [Function: parserOnBody],
'3': [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
'4': [Function: onParserExecute],
_headers: [],
_url: '',
_consumed: true,
socket: [Circular],
incoming: [Circular],
outgoing: null,
maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
onIncoming: [Function: parserOnIncoming] },
on: [Function: socketOnWrap],
_paused: false,
read: [Function],
_consuming: true,
_httpMessage:
ServerResponse {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 1,
_maxListeners: undefined,
output: [],
outputEncodings: [],
outputCallbacks: [],
outputSize: 0,
writable: true,
_last: false,
upgrading: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
_removedHeader: [Object],
_contentLength: 17,
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: true,
_headerSent: true,
socket: [Circular],
connection: [Circular],
_header: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nX-Powered-By: Express\r\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\nContent-Length: 17\r\nETag: W/"11-5i2g3OJs8No9M8PUhnLubxYJmZY"\r\nDate: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:06:49 GMT\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\n\r\n',
_headers: [Object],
_headerNames: [Object],
_onPendingData: [Function: updateOutgoingData],
req: [Circular],
locals: {},
statusMessage: 'OK',
statusCode: 200 } },
httpVersionMajor: 1,
httpVersionMinor: 1,
httpVersion: '1.1',
complete: false,
headers:
{ host: 'localhost:3000',
'user-agent': 'curl/7.43.0',
accept: '*/*',
'content-length': '23',
'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' },
rawHeaders:
[ 'Host',
'localhost:3000',
'User-Agent',
'curl/7.43.0',
'Accept',
'*/*',
'Content-Length',
'23',
'Content-Type',
'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' ],
trailers: {},
rawTrailers: [],
upgrade: false,
url: '/registerUser',
method: 'POST',
statusCode: null,
statusMessage: null,
client:
Socket {
connecting: false,
_hadError: false,
_handle:
TCP {
bytesRead: 183,
_externalStream: {},
fd: 14,
reading: true,
owner: [Circular],
onread: [Function: onread],
onconnection: null,
writeQueueSize: 0 },
_parent: null,
_host: null,
_readableState:
ReadableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
buffer: [Object],
length: 0,
pipes: null,
pipesCount: 0,
flowing: true,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: true,
sync: false,
needReadable: true,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
resumeScheduled: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
ranOut: false,
awaitDrain: 0,
readingMore: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events:
{ end: [Object],
finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
_socketEnd: [Function: onSocketEnd],
drain: [Object],
timeout: [Function],
error: [Function: socketOnError],
close: [Object],
data: [Function: socketOnData],
resume: [Function: onSocketResume],
pause: [Function: onSocketPause] },
_eventsCount: 10,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_writableState:
WritableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
needDrain: false,
ending: false,
ended: false,
finished: false,
decodeStrings: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
length: 0,
writing: false,
corked: 0,
sync: false,
bufferProcessing: false,
onwrite: [Function],
writecb: null,
writelen: 0,
bufferedRequest: null,
lastBufferedRequest: null,
pendingcb: 3,
prefinished: false,
errorEmitted: false,
bufferedRequestCount: 0,
corkedRequestsFree: [Object] },
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
destroyed: false,
_bytesDispatched: 222,
_sockname: null,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server:
Server {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_connections: 1,
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
_unref: false,
allowHalfOpen: true,
pauseOnConnect: false,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
_pendingResponseData: 0,
_connectionKey: '6::::3000' },
_server:
Server {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_connections: 1,
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
_unref: false,
allowHalfOpen: true,
pauseOnConnect: false,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
_pendingResponseData: 0,
_connectionKey: '6::::3000' },
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext:
TimersList {
_idleNext: [Circular],
_idlePrev: [Circular],
_timer: [Object],
_unrefed: true,
msecs: 120000 },
_idlePrev:
TimersList {
_idleNext: [Circular],
_idlePrev: [Circular],
_timer: [Object],
_unrefed: true,
msecs: 120000 },
_idleStart: 144720,
parser:
HTTPParser {
'0': [Function: parserOnHeaders],
'1': [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
'2': [Function: parserOnBody],
'3': [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
'4': [Function: onParserExecute],
_headers: [],
_url: '',
_consumed: true,
socket: [Circular],
incoming: [Circular],
outgoing: null,
maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
onIncoming: [Function: parserOnIncoming] },
on: [Function: socketOnWrap],
_paused: false,
read: [Function],
_consuming: true,
_httpMessage:
ServerResponse {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 1,
_maxListeners: undefined,
output: [],
outputEncodings: [],
outputCallbacks: [],
outputSize: 0,
writable: true,
_last: false,
upgrading: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
_removedHeader: [Object],
_contentLength: 17,
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: true,
_headerSent: true,
socket: [Circular],
connection: [Circular],
_header: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nX-Powered-By: Express\r\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\nContent-Length: 17\r\nETag: W/"11-5i2g3OJs8No9M8PUhnLubxYJmZY"\r\nDate: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:06:49 GMT\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\n\r\n',
_headers: [Object],
_headerNames: [Object],
_onPendingData: [Function: updateOutgoingData],
req: [Circular],
locals: {},
statusMessage: 'OK',
statusCode: 200 } },
_consuming: false,
_dumped: false,
next: [Function: next],
baseUrl: '',
originalUrl: '/registerUser',
_parsedUrl:
Url {
protocol: null,
slashes: null,
auth: null,
host: null,
port: null,
hostname: null,
hash: null,
search: null,
query: null,
pathname: '/registerUser',
path: '/registerUser',
href: '/registerUser',
_raw: '/registerUser' },
params: {},
query: {},
res:
ServerResponse {
domain: null,
_events: { finish: [Function: resOnFinish] },
_eventsCount: 1,
_maxListeners: undefined,
output: [],
outputEncodings: [],
outputCallbacks: [],
outputSize: 0,
writable: true,
_last: false,
upgrading: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
_removedHeader: { 'content-length': false },
_contentLength: 17,
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: true,
_headerSent: true,
socket:
Socket {
connecting: false,
_hadError: false,
_handle: [Object],
_parent: null,
_host: null,
_readableState: [Object],
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 10,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_writableState: [Object],
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
destroyed: false,
_bytesDispatched: 222,
_sockname: null,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server: [Object],
_server: [Object],
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext: [Object],
_idlePrev: [Object],
_idleStart: 144720,
parser: [Object],
on: [Function: socketOnWrap],
_paused: false,
read: [Function],
_consuming: true,
_httpMessage: [Circular] },
connection:
Socket {
connecting: false,
_hadError: false,
_handle: [Object],
_parent: null,
_host: null,
_readableState: [Object],
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 10,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_writableState: [Object],
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
destroyed: false,
_bytesDispatched: 222,
_sockname: null,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server: [Object],
_server: [Object],
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext: [Object],
_idlePrev: [Object],
_idleStart: 144720,
parser: [Object],
on: [Function: socketOnWrap],
_paused: false,
read: [Function],
_consuming: true,
_httpMessage: [Circular] },
_header: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nX-Powered-By: Express\r\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\nContent-Length: 17\r\nETag: W/"11-5i2g3OJs8No9M8PUhnLubxYJmZY"\r\nDate: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:06:49 GMT\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\n\r\n',
_headers:
{ 'x-powered-by': 'Express',
'content-type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8',
'content-length': '17',
etag: 'W/"11-5i2g3OJs8No9M8PUhnLubxYJmZY"' },
_headerNames:
{ 'x-powered-by': 'X-Powered-By',
'content-type': 'Content-Type',
'content-length': 'Content-Length',
etag: 'ETag' },
_onPendingData: [Function: updateOutgoingData],
req: [Circular],
locals: {},
statusMessage: 'OK',
statusCode: 200 },
route:
Route {
path: '/registerUser',
stack: [ [Object] ],
methods: { post: true } } }
The question is where are my username==test and foo=bar gone? How do I access req.data or something like that?
I'm looking at the documentation right now: https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_class_http_incomingmessage and it makes no sense, there's no single word about data I'm passing in my request and everything I care about is my data, that's what I'm working on, that's what I want to push to the MongoDB.
I'm missing something big. Help? :)
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This is basically how Express works:
var express = require('express'),
bodyparser = require('body-parser');
var app = express();
// Middleware
app.use(bodyparser.urlencoded({extended: false}));
app.get('/foo', function (req, res) {
// GET /foo?msg=hello ---> {msg: 'hello'}
console.log(req.query);
});
app.post('/bar', function (req, res) {
// POST msg=hello ---> {msg: 'hello'}
console.log(req.body);
});
app.listen(3000);
If you working with express then the simple request will not provide your desired data if you print the request.
req.body Contains key-value pairs of data submitted in the request body. By default, it is undefined and is populated when you use body-parsing middleware such as body-parser and multer.
This is what mention in documentation and recommended by Express Framework https://expressjs.com/en/api.html
so if you want to inspect it in express do some thing like this
var app =
require('express')();
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var multer = require('multer'); // v1.0.5
var upload = multer(); // for parsing multipart/form-data
app.use(bodyParser.json()); // for parsing application/json
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true })); // for parsing application/x-www-form-urlencoded
app.post('/registerUser', function (req, res) {
console.log(req.body); //console.log(req)
res.json(req.body); //res.send("hello world post")
});
You can also inspect your request with out using express framework or body parser. here i am posting just simple example to print post body on every request
var http =
require("http");
http.createServer(function (request, response) {
request.on('data', function(chunk) {
var bodydata = chunk.toString('utf8');
console.log(bodydata)
});
response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
response.end('hi welcome\n');
}).listen(8081);
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8081/');
this is how will look if you use bodyparser and express
here is body is you use body parser and express
Here is my post request
here is my output converting buffer into string
here is my simple node request with out using express which contain data event
data as buffer in req
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