Express bodyParser req.body undefined

[David R. Lee]

I'm having a hard time figuring out why I can't get req.body to be defined.  Could someone help me see the problem?

Basically using jQuery plugin ajaxForm to submit a form.  I tried express 3.3 and 3.0.6

Server config

server.configure(function () {

    server.use(express["static"](__dirname + "/public"));

    server.use(express.errorHandler({

        dumpExceptions:true,

        showStack:true

    }));

    server.use(express.bodyParser());

    server.use(server.router);

});

HTTP Request

1. Request URL:
   http://localhost:8001/rest/email
2. Request Method:
   POST
3. Status Code:
   500 Internal Server Error
4. Request Headersview source
1. Accept:
   */*
2. Accept-Encoding:
   gzip,deflate,sdch
3. Accept-Language:
   en-US,en;q=0.8
4. Cache-Control:
   no-cache
5. Connection:
   keep-alive
6. Content-Length:
   336
7. Content-Type:
   application/x-www-form-urlencoded
8. Cookie:
   connect.sid=s%3Ae0oxS0kGlARN0RVb2kpTWW4B.j6Kc5oBVjVc0LWBHxlFRJQ2Lm9l06j9xYA6pUJyzk9Q
9. Host:
   localhost:8001
10. Origin:
    http://localhost:8001
11. Pragma:
    no-cache
12. Referer:
    http://localhost:8001/
13. User-Agent:
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/28.0.1500.52 Chrome/28.0.1500.52 Safari/537.36
14. X-Requested-With:
    XMLHttpRequest
5. Form Dataview sourceview URL encoded
1. name:
   asdf
2. organization:
   asdf
3. email:
   asdf@adf
4. phone:
   asdfas
5. purpose:
   new-service
6. inquiry:
   asdfasdf
7. recaptcha_challenge_field:
   03AHJ_Vut8YpaUDKN5cJLqCXnMAZJLRgZpElQTg7LnynXQP_mZdiSQSwaH96q2dnUfvxAx2CVXZuU1iouZJeEMvSJQxHhB612T088gqCdhMs-ag2psk6qplGyjFjoIEiCr3g_ZHQyLTWQ2HGoUeMCKL9ixnPvmrk15jC4v4JVT8vTeKK_TGP3FarU
8. recaptcha_response_field:
   asdf
6. Response Headersview source
1. Connection:
   keep-alive
2. Content-Type:
   text/plain
3. Date:
   Mon, 08 Jul 2013 03:53:43 GMT
4. Transfer-Encoding:
   chunked
5. X-Powered-By:
   Express

Route

  app.post('/rest/email', recaptchaController, function(req, res) {

Error occurs in recaptchaController

module.exports = function(Recaptcha) { return function(req, res, next) { var data = { remoteip: req.connection.remoteAddress, challenge: req.body.recaptcha_challenge_field, response: req.body.recaptcha_response_field };

req.body is undefined

[David Dripps]

You've defined recaptchaController as a function that returns the route. Right now it's assuming function(Recaptcha) is the route, not the returned function. Change your route to this:

app.post('/rest/email', recaptchaController(), function(req, res) {

[David R. Lee]

Hey David thank you so much for responding.

I missed some parts of the code that might explain my code better (sorry).  I have a similar logic working in another app, and when I modified it a bit for this app, I'm getting lost.

module.exports = function (app, Recaptcha, transport) {

  var recaptchaController = require('../controllers/recaptchaController')(Recaptcha);

  app.post('/rest/email', recaptchaController, function(req, res) {

I have it defined like that so it should be returning the function with (req, res, next) as the parameter..

I just started trying to use the node debugger, but it does get into the function properly

I put a debug point in bodyParser, but it's not getting in there (might be a user error)

I end up getting the req object with no body

[David R. Lee]

Found my mistake - my route definition was above the server configuration.  For some reason, I didn't think this would affect the behavior.

require('./server/config/routes')(server, Recaptcha, transport); // I moved this line to below server.configure

server.configure(function () {

server.use(express.logger()); 

server.use(express.favicon());

    server.use(express["static"](__dirname + "/public"));

    server.use(express.bodyParser());

    server.use(express.methodOverride());

    server.use(server.router);

});

[David Dripps]

Yep. That'll do it. I've wrestled with the order of my middleware more times than I care to admit :)

Glad you figured it out!

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