How to consume JSON POST data

[Merlin Gaillard]

Hi,

Is there a possibility to consume a post body instead of using URL parameters?

For now the request's body is completely ignored and I cannot find a way to parse it...
I would like to be able to post multiple records at once.

Regards,
Merlin

[Ben Ng]

You need to parse it yourself using the req stream.

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Ben Ng

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[Merlin]

Yes, I was trying to look at the req stream but I am unable to inspect the body, I am only able to inspect the headers...

[Ben Ng]

The request stream is something like req.request. Geddy wraps it. I dont think that there is a body to inspect. You just pipe it into something like concat-stream or formidable.

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[Matthew Eernisse]

Since Node 0.10 we no longer wrap the request. Geddy parses the body for POST/PUT form and JSON input:

https://github.com/geddy/geddy/blob/master/lib/controller/init.js#L37

I notice that we're silently squelching JSON parse errors there, which is clearly not the right thing to do. I've added a GH Issue for this: https://github.com/geddy/geddy/issues/616