I'm trying to handle POST request within my koa-router. Unfortunately, every time I try to get data send using my form, I get nothing. I've tried koa-bodyparser, no luck there. I'm using Jade as template engine.

router.js:

var jade = require('jade');
var router = require('koa-router')();
var bodyParser = require('koa-bodyparser');
exports.enableRouting = function(app){
  app.use(bodyParser())      
  router.get('/game/questions', function *(next){
    this.status = 200;
    this.body = jade.renderFile('game_questions.jade');
  });
  router.post('/game/questions', function *(next){
    console.log(this.request.body);
    this.status = 200;
    this.body = jade.renderFile('game_questions.jade');
  });
  app
      .use(router.routes())
      .use(router.allowedMethods());
}

and part of game_questions.jade:

form(method='post' id='New_Question_Form')
  input(type='text', id='New_Question_Text')
  input(type='submit' value='Add Question')

this.request.body is empty, this.request returns: method, URL and header. Any help appreciated!

I'm trying to handle POST request within my koa-router. Unfortunately, every time I try to get data send using my form, I get nothing. I've tried koa-bodyparser, no luck there. I'm using Jade as template engine.

router.js:

var jade = require('jade');
var router = require('koa-router')();
var bodyParser = require('koa-bodyparser');
exports.enableRouting = function(app){
  app.use(bodyParser())      
  router.get('/game/questions', function *(next){
    this.status = 200;
    this.body = jade.renderFile('game_questions.jade');
  });
  router.post('/game/questions', function *(next){
    console.log(this.request.body);
    this.status = 200;
    this.body = jade.renderFile('game_questions.jade');
  });
  app
      .use(router.routes())
      .use(router.allowedMethods());
}

and part of game_questions.jade:

form(method='post' id='New_Question_Form')
  input(type='text', id='New_Question_Text')
  input(type='submit' value='Add Question')

this.request.body is empty, this.request returns: method, URL and header. Any help appreciated!

• javascript
• node.js
• koa

• 1 try onerror option github./koajs/bodyparser#options – monkey Commented Jul 19, 2015 at 19:29
• Tried it - there is no error. Thanks though :) – jwitos Commented Jul 20, 2015 at 10:56
• Didn't solve the problem. Although managed to work around it by using Socket.io to save the form instead of sending with POST. If anyone is curious here is the diff on github how I did it. – jwitos Commented Jul 21, 2015 at 17:17

1 Answer 1

In case anyone stumbles upon this in their searches, let me suggest koa-body which may be passed to a post request like so:

var koa = require('koa');
var http = require('http');
var router = require('koa-router')();
var bodyParser = require('koa-body')();

router.post('/game/questions', bodyParser, function *(next){
  console.log('\n------ post:/game/questions ------');
  console.log(this.request.body);
  this.status = 200;
  this.body = 'some jade output for post requests';
  yield(next);
});

startServerOne();

function startServerOne() {
  var app = koa();
  app.use(router.routes());
  http.createServer(app.callback()).listen(8081);
  console.log('Server 1 Port 8081');
}

but what would happen if post data was sent to /game/questions you say? Let us turn to curl in its infinite wisdom.

curl --data "param1=value1&pa//localhost:8081/game/questions'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 34
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:24:58 GMT
Connection: keep-alive

some jade output for post requests

And on the console of logs:

------ post:/game/questions ------
{ param1: 'value1', param2: 'value2' } 

And of course, if your jade is incorrect no body parser can save you.