POST not working?

[TobyEalden]

Hi

I'm having trouble getting POST methods to work - the request arrives at my API, but the req.body element is an empty object (even though I have specified args.data). GET works fine.

I tried with both direct and registered methods.

My API is implemented using express and is currently running on localhost:5000. The API works if I use an HTML form to post...

Any ideas what I might be missing?

Thanks,

Toby

[aacerox]

Hi

don't know I'll take a look.

Thanks.

[aacerox]

Hi again

Could you please send me the code (or similar code ...) your using with the POST method?

thanks in advance.

[jetume]

Please take a look at my pull request, I am guessing since Content-Length header wasn't being sent, express might be thinking that the request came with an empty body

#8

[aacerox]

fix it with pull request #8

Thanks.

[TobyEalden]

Still not working for me. See this https://gist.github.com/TobyEalden/6192116

Also, the recent pull request introduced a bug whereby args.headers is mandatory - if this line https://gist.github.com/TobyEalden/6192116#file-test-js-L7 is missing there is a crash.

[aacerox]

yep, you're Right I've just pushed the fix for the headers issue. I'm going to test your code and see if I can find what happends

Thanks

[aacerox]

Hi

I've been trying with my own server (simple node.js server without using "express.js") and everything works fine. please see https://gist.github.com/aacerox/f2fdf78e651804e5b004.

It seems to be something in the way express manage requests. Maybe you can use a node debugger like https://github.com/node-inspector/node-inspector to debug what's "express.js" doing with requests.

by the way you can enable console debug on node-rest-client by setting an environtment variable DEBUG like:

windows -> set DEBUG=true
linux -> export DEBUG=true

I'll try to see something by my self.

[aacerox]

I've found it!!!

you must set Content-type:application/json in client params headers:

var restClient = require("../../lib/node-rest-client").Client;
var appgAPIClient = new restClient();
var apiURLBase = "http://localhost:5000";

var args = {
  data: { test: "hello" },
  headers:{"Content-Type": "application/json"} 
};

appgAPIClient.post(apiURLBase + "/postTest", args, function(data,response) {
  if (data.hasOwnProperty("ok") && data.ok === true) {
    console.log("success");
  } else {
    console.log("failure");
  }
});

Also I've a bug in my last commit with header initialization, that I've already fix.

[TobyEalden]

Great thanks - I can confirm that works for me too.

BTW strictly speaking, https://github.com/aacerox/node-rest-client/blob/master/lib/node-rest-client.js#L149 should be

if (typeof options.headers === "undefined")

:)

Thanks for your help