body-parser

Hi I'm creating sample REST api using Node, Express and Mongo. I'm using bodyParser() middle ware to parse the form data. Its working fine for simple object say var user = { name:'test', age:'20' } req.body produce the same set of format to save it in the mongodb like. { name:'test', age:'20' } When using complex object var user = { name:'test', age:'20', education: { institute:"xxx", year:2010 } } req.body produce different format something like { name:'test', age:'20', education[institute]: "xxx", edcuation[year]:2010 } I would like to get the same format which i post in the body to save

I am currently using multer for multipart/form-data in node.js application alongside with body-parser . I tried to POST form-data using POSTMAN, but it is getting this error. Error: invalid json at parse (/Users/k/Documents/application/node_modules/body-parser/lib/types/json.js:79:15) at /Users/k/Documents/application/node_modules/body-parser/lib/read.js:102:18 at IncomingMessage.onEnd (/Users/k/Documents/application/node_modules/body-parser/node_modules/raw-body/index.js:136:7) at IncomingMessage.g (events.js:199:16) at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:104:17) at _stream_readable.js:908:16 at

I have an HTML form with an array of checkboxes (using [] naming). I need to be able to process this with express . I'm using body-parser . The problem is that unchecked checkboxes don't submit a value, and at the same time, body-parser seems to remove "holes" in arrays by simply packing the values into an array in order of indices, but ignoring the indices themselves. (Update: Actually it looks like qs is the culprit ). Consider this full example, which displays a form and responds with a JSON dump of the submitted data: Install: npm install express body-parser index.js: var express = require

I'm using expressjs and the body-parser middleware. This is how I initiate it: app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true })); app.use(bodyParser.json()); From the client I'm sending a DELETE request and when I try to pick it up from the server side I get an empty object: app.delete('/', function(req, res) { console.log(util.inspect(req.body)); //outputs {} //some more code }); however when I send it with a POST I get what I need: app.post('/delete', function(req, res) { console.log(util.inspect(req.body)); //outputs { mid: 'ffw1aNh2' } //some more code }); It is worth noting that I don't

Running an Express API, I'm struggling to parse data including an array of objects correctly when hitting a POST route. A simplified version of the code - var express = require('express'); var app = express(); var router = express.Router(); var bodyParser = require('body-parser'); var parseUrlencoded = bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }); router.post('/', parseUrlencoded, function(req, res) { console.log(req.body); }); Hitting the API with the following { name: "Object name", arrayOfObjects: [ { name: "Sub Object Name", subType: "Sub Object Type" }, { name: "Sub Object Name 2", subType:

I wrote an Express middleware to retrieve the raw body from the request, and I set it before body-parser middleware. My custom middleware is calling req.setEncoding('utf8') , but this causes the following body-parser error: Error: stream encoding should not be set at readStream (/node_modules/body-parser/node_modules/raw-body/index.js:211:17) at getRawBody (/node_modules/body-parser/node_modules/raw-body/index.js:106:12) at read (/node_modules/body-parser/lib/read.js:76:3) at jsonParser (/node_modules/body-parser/lib/types/json.js:127:5) Here is my code: var express = require('express'); var