Node.js request object documentation? [closed]

Answer 1

Just to add on, as a relative newbie in Node.js, I find it confusing that each framework has its own implementation of a "request" object.

For example,

Express: http://expressjs.com/api.html#req.param

and

Hapi: http://spumko.github.io/resource/api/#request-object (just to note that the raw request object is still available in request.raw.req)

Some libraries assume the presence of Express' "req.param" method, and fail when used in non-Express projects.

Answer 2

I'm not sure if this is a correct reply as it seems straightforward to me, but did you have a look at http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_incomingmessage?

Request is instance of the above object. By the way, if you really want to see what's inside that object with "brute force," you should not parse it, as it will not be a JSON string at all, but instead do something like:

for (i in request) {
  //Your code here
}

Hope it helps.

Answer 3

I agree with Delio, the Request object is of type IncomingMessage object, which is created by http.ClientRequest.