busboy is not defined connect-busboy with expres

Question

busboy is not defined connect-busboy with expres

I am working with expressjs 4.12.3, and trying to connect to connect-busboy, but on request I am not able to get req.busboy object, it says "undefined" my simple code is as follows :

var express=require('express');
var busboy = require('connect-busboy');
var app=express();
app.use(busboy());

app.use(function(req, res, next) {
   req.busboy.on('field', function(fieldname, val) {
     // console.log(fieldname, val);
     req.body[fieldname] = val;
   });

   req.busboy.on('finish', function(){
     next();
   });
 });
 
 app.listen(5555);

I have initialize busboy module, assigned it to the app, also sending content-length: "5276" content-type:'application/x-www-formurlencoded' as headers.

what am I doing wrong??

javascript
node.js
express
busboy

Answer 1

The problem is that you're setting up event handlers, but you're not actually piping the request to busboy so it can parse the request. Add req.pipe(req.busboy); after your busboy event handlers and it should work fine.

EDIT: I slightly misread your question. If req.busboy is undefined that means the Content-Type is wrong. If your Content-Type really is application/x-www-formurlencoded, then that is wrong. It should be: application/x-www-form-urlencoded.