Not able to set limit in body parser

[UditKaul]

I am trying to increase the limit of request entity allowed in body-parser. I tried this but was no good.
app.use(bodyParser());
app.use(bodyParser({limit: '50mb'}));
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({limit: '50mb'}));

The error message says "Error: request entity too large" and the status code is 413.

[Thanatos-L]

I have the same problem and I'm trying to add:

app.use(bodyParser.raw({limit: "50mb"}));

then get error: bodyParser.raw is not a function.

My problem still not be fixed yet.

I use AFNetworking to upload a picture which no more than 1mb.

NSString *urlString = [baseUrlString stringByAppendingString:@"account/avatar"];

    NSDictionary *parameters = @{@"token": self.token};
    NSURLSessionConfiguration *configuration = [NSURLSessionConfiguration defaultSessionConfiguration];
    AFURLSessionManager *manager = [[AFURLSessionManager alloc] initWithSessionConfiguration:configuration];

    NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[AFHTTPRequestSerializer serializer] requestWithMethod:@"POST" URLString:urlString parameters:parameters error:nil];
    //[request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept"];
    //[request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
    NSURLSessionUploadTask *uploadTask = [manager uploadTaskWithRequest:request fromFile:filePath progress:nil completionHandler:^(NSURLResponse *response, id responseObject, NSError *error) {
        if (error) {
            NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
        } else {
            NSLog(@"Success: %@ %@", response, responseObject);
        }
    }];
    [uploadTask resume];

[dougwilson]

Hi @UditKaul, I cannot reproduce your issue, and there is almost no information to go on in your report. Can you please provide all the following?

1. The version of this module you are using.
2. The version of Node.js you are using.
3. A complete app (not just a snippet like you pasted above) that we can copy-and-paste and run. Please include as little other dependencies as possible, to reduce the surface area of the investigation.
4. Please provide the complete steps to reproduce the issue. This may be a cURL command, for example. Explain what happens when it is not working, and explain what you expect to happen.

@Thanatos-L your issue sounds different from the one above, in particular, your bodyParser variable is either not from this module, or it is a very old version of this module, before raw was added. Please consult the README.md file for the installed body-parser version you are using to determine what functionality is available.

[UditKaul]

@dougwilson thank you for your concern,but i found a solution to my problem just by doing the following.

app.use(bodyParser({limit: '50mb'}));
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({limit: '50mb'}));
app.use(bodyParser());

[dougwilson]

Hi @UditKaul, oh, wow, I'm really sorry, but I actually copy-and-pasted your code incorrectly myself when I tried to test! So the reason why

app.use(bodyParser());
app.use(bodyParser({limit: '50mb'}));
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({limit: '50mb'}));

does not work is because you are using it over and over. I was assuming that you were simply showing three different ways, not that you actually had all three of those in your code. You see, you are actually defining the same body parsing multiple times for no reason, and since bodyParser() byt itself will parse both url encoded and json bodies, it it always meet first, and the second two literally do nothing.

Now in your new example, the first app.use(bodyParser({limit: '50mb'})); does all the work while your other two statements are doing absolutely nothing, so you can simply remove them.