Node-restify: bodyParser() not working

[ghost]

var restify = require('restify');
var patio = require('patio'),
    comb = require('comb');

var DB = patio.createConnection({
    host:'localhost',
    port:3306,
    type:'mysql',
    maxConnections:10,
    minConnections:1,
    user:'root',
    password:'azerty',
    database:'LoL'
});
var server = restify.createServer();

server.use(restify.bodyParser());

server.post('/update', updateUserInformation);
function updateUserInformation(request, response, next) {
    console.log(request.body);
}

server.listen(2100, function () {
    console.log('%s listening at %s', server.name, server.url);
});

Here's my code and I really don't know why this code don't work for me. Any idea ?

POST url : http://localhost:2100/update
POST data : user_id=112345

Thank you.

[mcavage]

What do you mean "doesn't work"? Can you:

• Take out all the DB stuff so I can reproduce this?
• Tell me what you're expecting to happen?
• Show me the request you used (ideally from curl)?

[caio-ribeiro-pereira]

I am having the same problem.

when I post something, my rest server receives a json string and not a json object, so for while I doing the workaround to execute the JSON.parse(req.body) to get the json objects.

[QB3L]

I am having the same problem as you cairo. Any solution for this? I don't want to have to do that extra call unless it is necessary

[japj]

is the client sending as application/json? (I think bodyparser will not parse the body if it is not json in the http headers)

[QB3L]

Yes it is. If I don't send it all kinds of errors appear because of what you yourself just mentioned, it doesn't parse it at all.

[fabriziomoscon]

I am using restify 1.4.4 on Linux - for POST method:
curl -i --data "[email protected]&first_name=John&city=London" http://127.0.0.1:10001/user

My server:

var server = restify.createServer();
server.use(restify.bodyParser());
server.listen(10001);

I am logging req.body =>

[email protected]&first_name=John&city=London

If I remove the use of bodyParser I simply have undefined.

I guess you NEED to JSON.parse the body yourself - unless I misunderstood the documentation - but the single values are present inside params anyway

{
  email: '[email protected]',
  first_name: 'John',
  city: 'London' 
}

It works for me.

Can you guys provide more information about this issue?

I am playing around with it to evaluate its use for an API project so I am quite keen to understand how many of these issues are actually woofs

[ghost]

perhaps you may do this

var restify = require('restify');

var server = restify.createServer();

server.use(restify.bodyParser());

server.post("/hello", function(req, res, next){
 console.log(req.params);
 res.send(200);
 res.end();
});

server.listen(10001);

[wascou]

Beware of the position of the _.use_ calls. They must be before the route declaration.

[Sumbers]

solution worked for me :) :

server.use(restify.acceptParser(server.acceptable)); server.use(restify.bodyParser());

[viko42]

update -> server.use(restify.plugins.bodyParser());