在express中合并req.params和req.url

Question

First of all, I have the following route:

route: '/list/:param1'

Im sending the following request to the server:

url: '/list/someParam?param2=foo&param3=bar

After that, express is giving to me two important objects that i need, the req.url and the req.params .

I want to get an object that merges both url and params. Im using the following code:

module.exports = function (req, res, next) {
    var url = require('url');
    var queryObject = url.parse(req.url, true).query;

    console.log(queryObject);
    console.log(req.params);
    console.log(req.params.length);
}

So it logs something like:

{ param2: 'foo', param3: 'bar' }
[ param1: 'someParam' ]
0

Now, assuming that I dont know the name of the params, I need to have an object with the information from both req.url and req.params . Here are my questions:

1) How can I do to get something like:

{ param1: 'someParam', param2: 'foo', param3: 'bar' }

2) Why is req.params logging something like an array? And if it is an array, why is it returning me 0 as its length?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

1. Use req.query instead of parsing the URL again.
2. I'm guessing Express has a custom toString implementation for that particular object.

You can also look up both in order of importance using req.param(name)