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I'm using express and having trouble getting form data from the bodyParser. No matter what I do it always comes up as an empty object. Here is my express generated app.js code (the only thing I added was the app.post route at the bottom):
var express = require('express');
var app = module.exports = express.createServer();
// Configuration
app.configure(function(){
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
app.set('view engine', 'jade');
app.use(express.bodyParser());
app.use(express.methodOverride());
app.use(app.router);
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
});
app.configure('development', function(){
app.use(express.errorHandler({ dumpExceptions: true, showStack: true }));
});
app.configure('production', function(){
app.use(express.errorHandler());
});
// Routes
app.get('/', function(req, res){
res.sendfile('./public/index.html');
});
app.post('/', function(req, res){
console.log(req.body);
res.sendfile('./public/index.html');
});
app.listen(3010);
Here is my HTML form:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<body>
<form id="myform" action="/" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
<input type="text" id="mytext" />
<input type="submit" id="mysubmit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
When I submit the form, req.body is an empty object {}
Its worth noting that this happens even if I remove the enctype attribute from the form tag
...Is there something I am missing/doing wrong?
I am using node v0.4.11 and express v2.4.6
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<form id="myform" action="/" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
<input type="text" name="I_appear_in_req_body" id="mytext" />
<input type="submit" id="mysubmit" />
</form>
The body of a HTTP post is a key/value hash of all the form controls with a name attribute, and the value is the value of the control.
You need to give names to all your inputs.
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It also due to content type. please see console.log(req) object.
'content-type': 'application/json; charset=UTF-8’ // valid.
'content-type': 'application/JSON; charset=UTF-8’ // invalid & req.body would empty object {}.
To check content type by console.log(req.is('json')) // return true/false
I think 'charset=UTF-8' is negligible in above.
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