ExpressJS: Getting parsed and raw body simultaneously

Question

ExpressJS: Getting parsed and raw body simultaneously

I'm trying to get both parsed body of a application/x-www-form-urlencoded post request and the raw body.

I found similar questions around here but non with a working answer.

I tried using raw-body but it ignores this kind of conetnet type.

Now I'm trying to use body-parser like so: app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded()); - it correctly populates the req.body but the question is how can I get the raw body as well?

Thanks

node.js
express

Answer 1

It is possible via bodyParser API to get the raw request body utilizing the verify function.

It is invoked before the stream is parsed,the raw body is available as its third argument.

Note that it is a buffer so you need to call toString if you want it as such

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({
             verify:function(req,res,body){
               req.rawBody = body.toString();
           }
        }));