Get exception “Object.keys called on non-object while trying to access object” while trying to get all field in request.body Nodejs?

Question

I have a piece of code for PUT method like this

module.exports.addRoutes = function(server) {
     //PUT
    server.put('/api/public/place/:id', function(request, response) {
         //this is just for testing, please do not care about the id
         var placedetail = request.body;
         for(var key in placedetail)
         {
              console.log(placedetail[key]);
         }
    });
};

In this code, I want to get all the request body field, like request.body.name , request.body.email, etc. The field parameter will be decided by the user , the server will get the value by key.

For example, a user put the data in the request like

{
name:"Test"
email:"abc@gmail.com"
}

another user put the data like

    {
    address:"Test"
    location:"Some Test String"
    }

I use this way and got the exception "Object.keys called on non-object while trying to access object". But when access each field , for example: request.body.name, request.body.email , it still get the parameter succesfully.

I also you another to way to parse the data by JSON.parse(request.body.toString()), but actually , the data is not JSON and can not parse.

How can I get all fields of request.body?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use body-parser module to parse the req.body data:

var bodyParser = require('body-parser');

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));