Routing-controllers: How do I receive Form Data?

[IAMtheIAM]

There's no @Form decorator, so how does the route controller receive x-www-form-urlencoded data and inject it?

[MichalLytek]

Use body-parser and you will have that data in body.

@UseBefore(bodyParser.urlencoded())
handleForm(@Body() form: any) {}

[xujif]

how to receive body as buffer
@19majkel94

[MichalLytek]

@xujif
https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser#bodyparserrawoptions

[MichalLytek]

@pleerock @NoNameProvided
Should we implement an option for @Body decorator to declare the type of the body-parser method to call before action? It's inconvenient to manually do it with @UseBefore.

[IAMtheIAM]

@19majkel94 Good idea.

[NoNameProvided]

Yeah it’s a good idea

[chanlito]

Umm, @Body doesn't parse urlencoded by default?

[chanlito]

Btw, express now has its own bodyparser, so I think we should use that, it's 1 less dep to install.

[MichalLytek]

@BruceHem nope, just json/text:

if (actionMetadata.isBodyUsed) {
            if (actionMetadata.isJsonTyped) {
                defaultMiddlewares.push(this.loadBodyParser().json(actionMetadata.bodyExtraOptions));
            } else {
                defaultMiddlewares.push(this.loadBodyParser().text(actionMetadata.bodyExtraOptions));
            }
        }

[alexey-pelykh]

Any interest in related PR? Or this is by design?

[durgeshg]

Any update on above issue? is it fixed? How can I read form url encoded values? Any help on using @UseBefore(bodyParser.urlencoded()) on controller would be helpful.

[xlxAciDxlx]

Also hoping for an update to this, ideally for the @Body() parameter to include form data automatically.

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