iron-ajax bind and write JSON to file

Question

I have the following iron-ajax element in my html:

<iron-ajax
  id="write-tweets"
  body='[{"statuses": "{{tweets}}"}]'
  url="/fscall"
  handle-as="json">
</iron-ajax>

And I have this in the js file for the above html:

Polymer({
is: "sample-app",

properties: {
  tweets: {
    type: Object,
    value: [],
  },
},

handleResponse(e){
  console.log("_________Twitter responses aquired:_________");
  this.tweets = this.tweets.concat(e.detail.response.statuses);
  this.writeTweets();
},

At this point, tweets is an array of JSON objects:

Now I'm trying to send this back to the node.js server so I can write/save it to a file.

writeTweets(){
  let ajax = this.root.querySelector('#write-tweets');
  ajax.generateRequest();  
}
... //some unrelated code

I have the following in app.js:

app.get('/fscall', (req, res) => {  
  fs.writeFile("tweets.json", JSON.parse(req.body, null, 4), function(err) {
    if (err) {
      console.log(err);
    }
  });
});

And here I'm running into errors, I have no idea how to access the JSON that I sent, req.body seems to be empty. Same happens if I try to wrap tweets in a getter (eg doing {returnTweets(){ return this.tweets;}, and body='[{"statuses": "{{returnTweets()}}"}]' .

Can anyone advise on how I could pass the JSON and print it?

UPDATE

OK so I'm managing to bind the tweets to the body of the request by doing

<iron-ajax
  method="POST"
  id="write-tweets"
  body$='{"statuses": {{tweetsParsed}}}'
  url="/fscall"
  handle-as="json">
</iron-ajax>

Where tweetsParsed is a property that contains the JSON.stringify ed tweets. Now if I check the ajax request, it contains the tweets in the body:

HOWEVER, I'm still not getting anything on the server side, and console. logging request.body returns {} ... Any idea why this is happening?

Answer 1

1. Can you confirm that json was send to server (via chrome dev tools)?
2. Dont use iron-ajax its buggy as hell try fetch which is nativly supported by your browser
3. If you actually send your json to the backend it should be in request.body.statuses