Express.js req.body undefined

Question

I have this as configuration of my Express server

app.use(app.router); 
app.use(express.cookieParser());
app.use(express.session({ secret: \"keyboard cat\" }         


        

Answer 1

Wasted a lot of time:

Depending on Content-Type in your client request
the server should have different, one of the below app.use():

app.use(bodyParser.text({ type: 'text/html' }))
app.use(bodyParser.text({ type: 'text/xml' }))
app.use(bodyParser.raw({ type: 'application/vnd.custom-type' }))
app.use(bodyParser.json({ type: 'application/*+json' }))

Source: https://www.npmjs.com/package/body-parser#bodyparsertextoptions

Example:

For me, On Client side, I had below header:

Content-Type: "text/xml"

So, on the server side, I used:

app.use(bodyParser.text({type: 'text/xml'}));

Then, req.body worked fine.