I need to create url for get which is going to accept array, how in node.js/express extract array from request?

Question

I need to create url for get which is going to accept array, how in node.js/express extract array from request ? I need to pass array with names which parametes I need to ba

Answer 1

You can pass array elements separated by slashes - GET /api/person/foo/bar/...

Define your route as '/api/person/(:arr)*'

req.params.arr will have the first parameter. req.params[0] will have the rest as string. You split and create an array with these two.

app.get('/api/person/(:arr)*', function(req, res) {
        var params = [req.params.arr].concat(req.params[0].split('/').slice(1));
        ...
});

GET /api/person/foo
params = ["foo"]

GET /api/person/foo/bar
params = ["foo", "bar"]

...