I'm beginning to learn node.js and trying to work out how to get the contents of a POST request. I am trying to follow the instructions in this post. So far I have successfully installed node.js (on Windows 7) and express, and been able to get my very first script to work. However my problem comes when I try to use body-parser. I have installed it and it appears to be there
Here is the code of the node.js script
var express = require('express');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var app = express();
app.use( bodyParser.json() ); // to support JSON-encoded bodies
app.use(express.json()); // to support JSON-encoded bodies
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain');
res.end('Vous êtes à l\'accueil');
});
app.get('/user/:usernum', function(req, res) {
res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain');
res.end('You are on page USER with n° : ' + req.params.usernum);
});
// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5710358/how-to-get-post-a-query-in-express-js-node-js
app.post('/adonis', function(req, res) {
res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain');
console.log(req.body.title);
// res.write(JSON.stringify(req));
res.end('Hopefully I stringified a POST');
});
// ... Tout le code de gestion des routes (app.get) se trouve au-dessus
app.use(function(req, res, next){
res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain');
res.status(404).send('Page introuvable !');
});
app.listen(8091);
Yet when I run it, node.js throws an error saying "cannot find module body-parser". What have I done wrong?
As per @Kale's and others' suggestions I tried installing body-parser locally, but this does not seem to help since now my script gives the following message:
Error: Most middleware (like json) is no longer bundled with Express and must be installed separately. Please see https://github.com/senchalabs/connect#middleware.
at Function.Object.defineProperty.get (d:\smartguide\nodejs\node_modules\express\lib\express.js:99:13)
at Object.<anonymous> (d:\smartguide\nodejs\oc1.js:5:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:501:10)
at startup (node.js:129:16)
at node.js:814:3`
I tried installing "json" locally and globally - the install seems to work but it makes no difference to the file error.
As Kevin B stated, you have to install body-parser
locally and save it to the manifest:
npm install --save body-parser