I tried using body-parser but it seems like it is not working
Question
Im using body parser with express but is not working and it is returning empty object when i print req.body in the console.
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: true}));
app.set('view engine','ejs');
app.get('/' ,function(req,res){
var name = "ganesh"
console.log(req.body.name);
res.render('home',{name : name});
});
app.post('/postname' , function(req,res){
res.redirect("/");
});
app.listen(3000,function(){
console.log("server started");
};
this is my home.ejs file
<html>
<head>
<title>practice</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>
hello<%= name %> This is the home page
</h1>
<form action="/postname" method = "POST">
<input type = "text" name="name">
<button>
go
</button>
</form>
</body>
i have correctly installed body-parser ejs and express
this is printed in the console:
server started {}
1 answers
solution1
1 ACCPTED 2020-03-17 09:15:47
You are redirecting the postname request to / , Please note that this will not forward request data to / root route.
The res.redirect("/") will send a response back to client with 302 status, and then the client will make a Get request to / route without any data. hence the request.body will always has empty data in Get request.
You could handle the data in postname route and then redirect it.
If you want to forward the data from postname to / route then you could pass it in the query string .
Example:
var app = express();
var app = express();
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
var name = "ganesh"
res.render('home', { name: req.query.name });
});
app.post('/postname', function (req, res) {
var name = "ganesh"
console.log(req.body.name);
// handle the post data here
res.redirect("/?name=" + req.body.name);
});
app.listen(3000, function () {
console.log("server started");
});
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