Question

I just installed nodejs v0.6.12 on Ubuntu 10 on Amazon AWS.
The code runs without any issues on my computer (running 0.6.11 on ubuntu) but on the AWS server, I get a JSON parse error:

SyntaxError: Unexpected token u
at Object.parse (native)

The error appears to be coming from the line where I am trying to parse the request from the client (containing a JSON array). It does not appear that I am using any unassigned variable in the line where the error appears to be coming from.

Once again, the code works on my computer – I do not believe I should need any modules for JSON since its built-in with nodejs. Any help in troubleshooting will be appreciated.

The line throwing the error is given below:

obj = JSON.parse(req.rawBody); // I tried both – first by assigning obj an empty value
var obj = JSON.parse(req.rawBody); //

Thanks.

Answer 1

The issue was that the new version of Express (3.0) does not appear to support req.rawBody anymore – the old version did.