How to do a simple read POST data in Node JS?

Question

I've used this code to read the querystring ?name=Jeremy ...can anyone tell me how to do this with post data? also with json?

var http = require('http'), url = require('url');
http.createServer(function(request, response) {
    response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type":"text/plain"});
    var urlObj = url.parse(request.url, true);
    response.write("Hello " + urlObj.query["name"] + "!\n");
}).listen(8000);

thanks!

yojimbo87 · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-03 10:02:50Z

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You have to handle data and end events of http.ServerRequest object. Example:

var util = require("util"),
    http = require('http'), 
     url = require('url'),
      qs = require('querystring');

...

// this is inside path which handles your HTTP POST method request
if(request.method === "POST") {
    var data = "";

    request.on("data", function(chunk) {
        data += chunk;
    });

    request.on("end", function() {
        util.log("raw: " + data);

        var json = qs.parse(data);

        util.log("json: " + json);
    });
}

Here is an article on this topic with example (with too old version of node.js so it might not work, but the principle is the same).

answered Apr 3, 2011 at 10:02

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Devin Rhode Over a year ago

I'm googling and I noticed your answer is from a year ago... is this still accurate? Also, I'm using express, which clearly isn't being used here

Bloodyaugust Over a year ago

The problem here is that the response will not be correctly formatted JSON.

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