My client is making an ajax call
{{
function callNode(){
console.log("I am called");
var data = {"emailId":"gopal@gmail.com"};
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
data: JSON.stringify(data),
/* data: {
blob: {wob:"1",job:"2", ar:[1,2,{a:'b'}]}
},*/
contentType: "application/javascript",
//contentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
dataType:'json',
url: 'http://localhost:3000/notification',
success: function(data) {
console.log('success');
console.log(JSON.stringify(data));
},
error: function(error) {
console.log("some error in fetching the notifications");
}
});
}
}}
I am able to get this request in my app.js but not able to get the data that I am passing I tried to search but nothing is working
{{
app.post('/notification', function(req, res) {
JSON.stringify(req.params);
/*
var body;
req.on('data', function(chunk) {
console.log("Received body data:");
body += chunk;
});
// the end event tells you that you have entire body
/*req.on('end', function () {
try {
var data = JSON.parse(body);
colnosole.log(data);
} catch (er) {
// uh oh! bad json!
res.statusCode = 400;
return res.end('error: ' + er.message);
}
}
*/
}}
Thing is its not coming inside any events of request and response(as I have seen many people using this to fetch the data.
Help me to know whats wrong here its first time ajax on node
req.params doesn't do what you think it does.
app.get('/:route', function(req, res) {
console.log(req.params.route);
});
Visiting /test would populate req.params.route with test.
You're looking for req.body, which can only be used with the body-parser middleware.
Since you sending data as json the contentType needs to be changed with respect to that so the ajax call should be:
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
data: JSON.stringify(data),
/* data: {
blob: {wob:"1",job:"2", ar:[1,2,{a:'b'}]}
},*/
contentType: "application/json",
//contentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
dataType:'json',
url: 'http://localhost:3000/notification',
success: function(data) {
console.log('success');
console.log(JSON.stringify(data));
},
error: function(error) {
console.log("some error in fetching the notifications");
}
});
Over here you can see the contentType changed to application/json.
At the server end you need to check the request.body in order to get the data and not request.params.
You have to use body-parser middleware(https://www.npmjs.org/package/body-parser) and you need to declare which badyParser to use
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded())
inside your main js file. Then req.body object will contain your json/text/raw/urlencoded data.