How to force parse request body as plain text instead of json in Express?

Question

I am using nodejs + Express (v3) like this:

app.use(express.bodyParser());
app.route('/some/route', function(req, res) {
  var text = req.body; // I expect text to be a string but it is a JSON
});

I checked the request headers and the content-type is missing. Even if "Content-Type" is "text/plain" it is parsing as a JSON it seems. Is there anyway to tell the middleware to always parse the body as a plain text string instead of json? Earlier versions of req used to have req.rawBody that would get around this issue but now it does not anymore. What is the easiest way to force parse body as plain text/string in Express?

Answer 1

In express 4.x you can use the text parser from bodyParser https://www.npmjs.org/package/body-parser

just add in app.js

app.use(bodyParser.text());

Also in the desired route

router.all('/',function(req,res){
    console.log(req.body);

})