I just set up a project in NodeJS and I am trying to do a POST request from my frontend (via API). Everything is working fine, the post request is succesfully performed, all the parameters are sent and my NodeJS app gets the request, however the body/params are empty.
Here’s the code I am using:
const http = require('http');
const express = require('express');
const cors = require('cors');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const hostname = '127.0.0.1';
const port = 3000;
const app = express();
const corsOptions = {
origin: 'http://localhost:4200',
allowedHeaders: ['Content-Type']
}
app.options('*', cors(corsOptions));
app.use(cors(corsOptions));
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended : true}));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.post('/', function (req, res) {
console.log(req);
res.send('Hello World!');
})
The app shows ‘Hello World’ when I post to the the default path and also shows all the req information but the parameters are empty {}
Here’s my client side code:
testPost(parameter1: any, parameter2: any): Observable<any> {
return this.http.post(URL_API.url,
{'parameter1': parameter1, 'parameter2': parameter2},
{headers: new HttpHeaders({'Content-Type': '*'})});
}
Here’s wat I get in NodeJS:
<ref *2> IncomingMessage {
_readableState: ReadableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
buffer: BufferList { head: null, tail: null, length: 0 },
length: 0,
pipes: [],
flowing: null,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: false,
sync: true,
needReadable: false,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
resumeScheduled: false,
errorEmitted: false,
emitClose: true,
autoDestroy: false,
destroyed: false,
errored: null,
closed: false,
closeEmitted: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
awaitDrainWriters: null,
multiAwaitDrain: false,
readingMore: true,
decoder: null,
encoding: null,
[Symbol(kPaused)]: null
},
_events: [Object: null prototype] { end: [Function: clearRequestTimeout] },
_eventsCount: 1,
_maxListeners: undefined,
socket: <ref *1> Socket {
connecting: false,
_hadError: false,
_parent: null,
_host: null,
_readableState: ReadableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
buffer: BufferList { head: null, tail: null, length: 0 },
length: 0,
pipes: [],
flowing: true,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: true,
sync: false,
needReadable: true,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
resumeScheduled: false,
errorEmitted: false,
emitClose: false,
autoDestroy: false,
destroyed: false,
errored: null,
closed: false,
closeEmitted: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
awaitDrainWriters: null,
multiAwaitDrain: false,
readingMore: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null,
[Symbol(kPaused)]: false
},
_events: [Object: null prototype] {
end: [Array],
timeout: [Function: socketOnTimeout],
data: [Function: bound socketOnData],
error: [Function: socketOnError],
close: [Array],
drain: [Function: bound socketOnDrain],
resume: [Function: onSocketResume],
pause: [Function: onSocketPause]
},
_eventsCount: 8,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_writableState: WritableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
finalCalled: false,
needDrain: false,
ending: false,
ended: false,
finished: false,
destroyed: false,
decodeStrings: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
length: 0,
writing: false,
corked: 0,
sync: false,
bufferProcessing: false,
onwrite: [Function: bound onwrite],
writecb: null,
writelen: 0,
afterWriteTickInfo: null,
buffered: [],
bufferedIndex: 0,
allBuffers: true,
allNoop: true,
pendingcb: 0,
prefinished: false,
errorEmitted: false,
emitClose: false,
autoDestroy: false,
errored: null,
closed: false,
closeEmitted: false
},
allowHalfOpen: true,
_sockname: null,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server: Server {
maxHeaderSize: undefined,
insecureHTTPParser: undefined,
_events: [Object: null prototype],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_connections: 1,
_handle: [TCP],
_usingWorkers: false,
_workers: [],
_unref: false,
allowHalfOpen: true,
pauseOnConnect: false,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 0,
keepAliveTimeout: 5000,
maxHeadersCount: null,
headersTimeout: 60000,
requestTimeout: 0,
_connectionKey: '4:127.0.0.1:3000',
[Symbol(IncomingMessage)]: [Function: IncomingMessage],
[Symbol(ServerResponse)]: [Function: ServerResponse],
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
[Symbol(async_id_symbol)]: 11
},
_server: Server {
maxHeaderSize: undefined,
insecureHTTPParser: undefined,
_events: [Object: null prototype],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_connections: 1,
_handle: [TCP],
_usingWorkers: false,
_workers: [],
_unref: false,
allowHalfOpen: true,
pauseOnConnect: false,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 0,
keepAliveTimeout: 5000,
maxHeadersCount: null,
headersTimeout: 60000,
requestTimeout: 0,
_connectionKey: '4:127.0.0.1:3000',
[Symbol(IncomingMessage)]: [Function: IncomingMessage],
[Symbol(ServerResponse)]: [Function: ServerResponse],
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
[Symbol(async_id_symbol)]: 11
},
parser: HTTPParser {
'0': [Function: bound setRequestTimeout],
'1': [Function: parserOnHeaders],
'2': [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
'3': [Function: parserOnBody],
'4': [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
'5': [Function: bound onParserExecute],
'6': [Function: bound onParserTimeout],
_headers: [],
_url: '',
socket: [Circular *1],
incoming: [Circular *2],
outgoing: null,
maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
_consumed: true,
onIncoming: [Function: bound parserOnIncoming],
[Symbol(resource_symbol)]: [HTTPServerAsyncResource]
},
on: [Function: socketListenerWrap],
addListener: [Function: socketListenerWrap],
prependListener: [Function: socketListenerWrap],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage: ServerResponse {
_events: [Object: null prototype],
_eventsCount: 1,
_maxListeners: undefined,
outputData: [],
outputSize: 0,
writable: true,
destroyed: false,
_last: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
_defaultKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
_removedConnection: false,
_removedContLen: false,
_removedTE: false,
_contentLength: null,
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: false,
_headerSent: false,
socket: [Circular *1],
_header: null,
_keepAliveTimeout: 5000,
_onPendingData: [Function: bound updateOutgoingData],
_sent100: false,
_expect_continue: false,
req: [Circular *2],
locals: [Object: null prototype] {},
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
[Symbol(kNeedDrain)]: false,
[Symbol(corked)]: 0,
[Symbol(kOutHeaders)]: [Object: null prototype]
},
timeout: 0,
[Symbol(async_id_symbol)]: 20,
[Symbol(kHandle)]: TCP {
reading: true,
onconnection: null,
_consumed: true,
[Symbol(owner_symbol)]: [Circular *1]
},
[Symbol(kSetNoDelay)]: false,
[Symbol(lastWriteQueueSize)]: 0,
[Symbol(timeout)]: Timeout {
_idleTimeout: -1,
_idlePrev: null,
_idleNext: null,
_idleStart: 2049,
_onTimeout: null,
_timerArgs: undefined,
_repeat: null,
_destroyed: true,
[Symbol(refed)]: false,
[Symbol(kHasPrimitive)]: false,
[Symbol(asyncId)]: 28,
[Symbol(triggerId)]: 24
},
[Symbol(kBuffer)]: null,
[Symbol(kBufferCb)]: null,
[Symbol(kBufferGen)]: null,
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
[Symbol(kBytesRead)]: 0,
[Symbol(kBytesWritten)]: 0,
[Symbol(RequestTimeout)]: undefined
},
httpVersionMajor: 1,
httpVersionMinor: 1,
httpVersion: '1.1',
complete: false,
headers: {
host: '127.0.0.1:3000',
connection: 'keep-alive',
'content-length': '66',
'sec-ch-ua': '"Google Chrome";v="95", "Chromium";v="95", ";Not A Brand";v="99"',
accept: 'application/json, text/plain, */*',
'content-type': 'applcation/json',
'sec-ch-ua-mobile': '?0',
'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/95.0.4638.69 Safari/537.36',
'sec-ch-ua-platform': '"Linux"',
origin: 'http://localhost:4200',
'sec-fetch-site': 'cross-site',
'sec-fetch-mode': 'cors',
'sec-fetch-dest': 'empty',
referer: 'http://localhost:4200/',
'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
'accept-language': 'en-US,en;q=0.9'
},
rawHeaders: [
'Host',
'127.0.0.1:3000',
'Connection',
'keep-alive',
'Content-Length',
'66',
'sec-ch-ua',
'"Google Chrome";v="95", "Chromium";v="95", ";Not A Brand";v="99"',
'Accept',
'application/json, text/plain, */*',
'Content-Type',
'applcation/json',
'sec-ch-ua-mobile',
'?0',
'User-Agent',
'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/95.0.4638.69 Safari/537.36',
'sec-ch-ua-platform',
'"Linux"',
'Origin',
'http://localhost:4200',
'Sec-Fetch-Site',
'cross-site',
'Sec-Fetch-Mode',
'cors',
'Sec-Fetch-Dest',
'empty',
'Referer',
'http://localhost:4200/',
'Accept-Encoding',
'gzip, deflate, br',
'Accept-Language',
'en-US,en;q=0.9'
],
trailers: {},
rawTrailers: [],
aborted: false,
upgrade: false,
url: '/',
method: 'POST',
statusCode: null,
statusMessage: null,
client: <ref *1> Socket {
connecting: false,
_hadError: false,
_parent: null,
_host: null,
_readableState: ReadableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
buffer: BufferList { head: null, tail: null, length: 0 },
length: 0,
pipes: [],
flowing: true,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: true,
sync: false,
needReadable: true,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
resumeScheduled: false,
errorEmitted: false,
emitClose: false,
autoDestroy: false,
destroyed: false,
errored: null,
closed: false,
closeEmitted: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
awaitDrainWriters: null,
multiAwaitDrain: false,
readingMore: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null,
[Symbol(kPaused)]: false
},
_events: [Object: null prototype] {
end: [Array],
timeout: [Function: socketOnTimeout],
data: [Function: bound socketOnData],
error: [Function: socketOnError],
close: [Array],
drain: [Function: bound socketOnDrain],
resume: [Function: onSocketResume],
pause: [Function: onSocketPause]
},
_eventsCount: 8,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_writableState: WritableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
finalCalled: false,
needDrain: false,
ending: false,
ended: false,
finished: false,
destroyed: false,
decodeStrings: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
length: 0,
writing: false,
corked: 0,
sync: false,
bufferProcessing: false,
onwrite: [Function: bound onwrite],
writecb: null,
writelen: 0,
afterWriteTickInfo: null,
buffered: [],
bufferedIndex: 0,
allBuffers: true,
allNoop: true,
pendingcb: 0,
prefinished: false,
errorEmitted: false,
emitClose: false,
autoDestroy: false,
errored: null,
closed: false,
closeEmitted: false
},
allowHalfOpen: true,
_sockname: null,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server: Server {
maxHeaderSize: undefined,
insecureHTTPParser: undefined,
_events: [Object: null prototype],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_connections: 1,
_handle: [TCP],
_usingWorkers: false,
_workers: [],
_unref: false,
allowHalfOpen: true,
pauseOnConnect: false,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 0,
keepAliveTimeout: 5000,
maxHeadersCount: null,
headersTimeout: 60000,
requestTimeout: 0,
_connectionKey: '4:127.0.0.1:3000',
[Symbol(IncomingMessage)]: [Function: IncomingMessage],
[Symbol(ServerResponse)]: [Function: ServerResponse],
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
[Symbol(async_id_symbol)]: 11
},
_server: Server {
maxHeaderSize: undefined,
insecureHTTPParser: undefined,
_events: [Object: null prototype],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_connections: 1,
_handle: [TCP],
_usingWorkers: false,
_workers: [],
_unref: false,
allowHalfOpen: true,
pauseOnConnect: false,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 0,
keepAliveTimeout: 5000,
maxHeadersCount: null,
headersTimeout: 60000,
requestTimeout: 0,
_connectionKey: '4:127.0.0.1:3000',
[Symbol(IncomingMessage)]: [Function: IncomingMessage],
[Symbol(ServerResponse)]: [Function: ServerResponse],
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
[Symbol(async_id_symbol)]: 11
},
parser: HTTPParser {
'0': [Function: bound setRequestTimeout],
'1': [Function: parserOnHeaders],
'2': [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
'3': [Function: parserOnBody],
'4': [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
'5': [Function: bound onParserExecute],
'6': [Function: bound onParserTimeout],
_headers: [],
_url: '',
socket: [Circular *1],
incoming: [Circular *2],
outgoing: null,
maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
_consumed: true,
onIncoming: [Function: bound parserOnIncoming],
[Symbol(resource_symbol)]: [HTTPServerAsyncResource]
},
on: [Function: socketListenerWrap],
addListener: [Function: socketListenerWrap],
prependListener: [Function: socketListenerWrap],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage: ServerResponse {
_events: [Object: null prototype],
_eventsCount: 1,
_maxListeners: undefined,
outputData: [],
outputSize: 0,
writable: true,
destroyed: false,
_last: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
_defaultKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
_removedConnection: false,
_removedContLen: false,
_removedTE: false,
_contentLength: null,
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: false,
_headerSent: false,
socket: [Circular *1],
_header: null,
_keepAliveTimeout: 5000,
_onPendingData: [Function: bound updateOutgoingData],
_sent100: false,
_expect_continue: false,
req: [Circular *2],
locals: [Object: null prototype] {},
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
[Symbol(kNeedDrain)]: false,
[Symbol(corked)]: 0,
[Symbol(kOutHeaders)]: [Object: null prototype]
},
timeout: 0,
[Symbol(async_id_symbol)]: 20,
[Symbol(kHandle)]: TCP {
reading: true,
onconnection: null,
_consumed: true,
[Symbol(owner_symbol)]: [Circular *1]
},
[Symbol(kSetNoDelay)]: false,
[Symbol(lastWriteQueueSize)]: 0,
[Symbol(timeout)]: Timeout {
_idleTimeout: -1,
_idlePrev: null,
_idleNext: null,
_idleStart: 2049,
_onTimeout: null,
_timerArgs: undefined,
_repeat: null,
_destroyed: true,
[Symbol(refed)]: false,
[Symbol(kHasPrimitive)]: false,
[Symbol(asyncId)]: 28,
[Symbol(triggerId)]: 24
},
[Symbol(kBuffer)]: null,
[Symbol(kBufferCb)]: null,
[Symbol(kBufferGen)]: null,
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
[Symbol(kBytesRead)]: 0,
[Symbol(kBytesWritten)]: 0,
[Symbol(RequestTimeout)]: undefined
},
_consuming: false,
_dumped: false,
next: [Function: next],
baseUrl: '',
originalUrl: '/',
_parsedUrl: Url {
protocol: null,
slashes: null,
auth: null,
host: null,
port: null,
hostname: null,
hash: null,
search: null,
query: null,
pathname: '/',
path: '/',
href: '/',
_raw: '/'
},
params: {},
query: {},
res: <ref *3> ServerResponse {
_events: [Object: null prototype] { finish: [Function: bound resOnFinish] },
_eventsCount: 1,
_maxListeners: undefined,
outputData: [],
outputSize: 0,
writable: true,
destroyed: false,
_last: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
_defaultKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
_removedConnection: false,
_removedContLen: false,
_removedTE: false,
_contentLength: null,
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: false,
_headerSent: false,
socket: <ref *1> Socket {
connecting: false,
_hadError: false,
_parent: null,
_host: null,
_readableState: [ReadableState],
_events: [Object: null prototype],
_eventsCount: 8,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_writableState: [WritableState],
allowHalfOpen: true,
_sockname: null,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server: [Server],
_server: [Server],
parser: [HTTPParser],
on: [Function: socketListenerWrap],
addListener: [Function: socketListenerWrap],
prependListener: [Function: socketListenerWrap],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage: [Circular *3],
timeout: 0,
[Symbol(async_id_symbol)]: 20,
[Symbol(kHandle)]: [TCP],
[Symbol(kSetNoDelay)]: false,
[Symbol(lastWriteQueueSize)]: 0,
[Symbol(timeout)]: Timeout {
_idleTimeout: -1,
_idlePrev: null,
_idleNext: null,
_idleStart: 2049,
_onTimeout: null,
_timerArgs: undefined,
_repeat: null,
_destroyed: true,
[Symbol(refed)]: false,
[Symbol(kHasPrimitive)]: false,
[Symbol(asyncId)]: 28,
[Symbol(triggerId)]: 24
},
[Symbol(kBuffer)]: null,
[Symbol(kBufferCb)]: null,
[Symbol(kBufferGen)]: null,
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
[Symbol(kBytesRead)]: 0,
[Symbol(kBytesWritten)]: 0,
[Symbol(RequestTimeout)]: undefined
},
_header: null,
_keepAliveTimeout: 5000,
_onPendingData: [Function: bound updateOutgoingData],
_sent100: false,
_expect_continue: false,
req: [Circular *2],
locals: [Object: null prototype] {},
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
[Symbol(kNeedDrain)]: false,
[Symbol(corked)]: 0,
[Symbol(kOutHeaders)]: [Object: null prototype] {
'x-powered-by': [Array],
'access-control-allow-origin': [Array],
vary: [Array]
}
},
body: {},
route: Route { path: '/', stack: [ [Layer] ], methods: { post: true } },
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
[Symbol(RequestTimeout)]:
So here’s my question: How do I get post parameters in NodeJS?
>Solution :
As in the comments, in client side, you need to specify content type explicitly.
for example:
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
then in your express app:
console.log(req.body)
credits to @isolated and @john in the question’s comments