How can I make put and delete requests from a form using node.js and express.js?

Question

So I'm trying to make a put request using

My put form

    <form id="for" action="/people" method="post">
        <div class="">
            <input type="text" name="Name" value=<%= data[0].name %> >
        </div>
        <div class="">
            <input type="text" name="City" value="" placeholder=<%= data[0].favorite_city %>>
        </div>

        <input type="hidden" name="_method" value="put"/>
        <input type="submit" name="" value="Edit">
    </form>

My server side scripts

  var methodOverride = require('method-override'); app.use(methodOverride('_method')); app.put('/people', function(req,res){ pg.connect(DATABASE_URL, function(err, client, done){ var pid = parseInt(req.params.id); var name = req.query.Name; var city = req.query.City; var client_query = ''; if(name = ''){ client_query = `update persons set favorite_city =${city} where id = ${pid}`; } else{ client_query = `update persons set name = ${name}, favorite_city= ${city} where id= ${pid}`; } client.query(client_query, function(err, result){ res.redirect(`/people/${pid}`) done(); pg.end(); }) }) }); 

I am using method override but it only seems to do a post with the new data The problem is similar with delete so I'm not going to put the code here because it may be a little redundant. But if anyone wants to see it I don't mind

Answer 1

methodOverride('_method') returns a middleware that looks for the key _method in the query string (see method-override docs ). By including the _method variable in the form and sending the form with the POST method, _method is not included in the query string, but in the request body. Probably you want to use the body-parser middleware before the methodOverride middleware and then do something like:

app.use(methodOverride(req => req.body._method));

In addition, you probably want to replace query with body in:

var name = req.query.Name;
var city = req.query.City;