Question

I have an express app and a POST route:

app.post('/test', function(req, res){

 //res.send(req.body.title + req.body.body)
 console.log(req.params);
 console.log(req.body);
 console.log(req.body.user);
 console.log(req.body.feedback);
 console.log("ok");
 //return;
});

I try to do ~ $ curl -X POST "http://xxxx.herokuapp.com/test?user=hello" and I get:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'user' of undefined
    at Router.<anonymous> (/app/app.js:40:22)
    at done (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:250:22)
    at middleware (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:244:9)
    at param (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:227:11)
    at pass (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:232:6)
    at Router._dispatch (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:255:4)
    at Object.handle (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:45:10)
    at next (/app/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/http.js:198:15)
    at Object.methodOverride [as handle] (/app/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/middleware/methodOverride.js:35:5)
    at next (/app/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/http.js:198:15)~ $ 

Shouldn’t that POST work?

Thanks

Answer 1

No, the parameter you are passing is not on the post body but in the querystring.

According to the docs, to access it you must do:

req.query.user