pass JSON to HTTP POST Request

Question

I\'m trying to make a HTTP POST request to the google QPX Express API [1] using nodejs and request [2].

My code l

Answer 1

I feel

var x = request.post({
       uri: config.uri,
       json: reqData
    });

Defining like this will be the effective way of writing your code. And application/json should be automatically added. There is no need to specifically declare it.

Answer 2

I think the following should work:

// fire request
request({
    url: url,
    method: "POST",
    json: requestData
}, ...

In this case, the Content-type: application/json header is automatically added.

Answer 3

According to doc: https://github.com/request/request

The example is:

  multipart: {
      chunked: false,
      data: [
        {
          'content-type': 'application/json', 
          body: JSON.stringify({foo: 'bar', _attachments: {'message.txt': {follows: true, length: 18, 'content_type': 'text/plain' }}})
        },
      ]
    }

I think you send an object where a string is expected, replace

body: requestData

by

body: JSON.stringify(requestData)

Answer 4

       var request = require('request');
        request({
            url: "http://localhost:8001/xyz",
            json: true,
            headers: {
                "content-type": "application/json",
            },
            body: JSON.stringify(requestData)
        }, function(error, response, body) {
            console.log(response);
        });

Answer 5

Example.

var request = require('request');

var url = "http://localhost:3000";

var requestData = {
    ...
} 

var data = {
    url: url,
    json: true,
    body: JSON.stringify(requestData)
}

request.post(data, function(error, httpResponse, body){
    console.log(body);
});

As inserting json: true option, sets body to JSON representation of value and adds "Content-type": "application/json" header. Additionally, parses the response body as JSON. LINK

Answer 6

Now with new JavaScript version (ECMAScript 6 http://es6-features.org/#ClassDefinition) there is a better way to submit requests using nodejs and Promise request (http://www.wintellect.com/devcenter/nstieglitz/5-great-features-in-es6-harmony)

Using library: https://github.com/request/request-promise

npm install --save request
npm install --save request-promise

client:

//Sequential execution for node.js using ES6 ECMAScript
var rp = require('request-promise');

rp({
    method: 'POST',
    uri: 'http://localhost:3000/',
    body: {
        val1 : 1,
        val2 : 2
    },
    json: true // Automatically stringifies the body to JSON
}).then(function (parsedBody) {
        console.log(parsedBody);
        // POST succeeded...
    })
    .catch(function (err) {
        console.log(parsedBody);
        // POST failed...
    });

server:

var express = require('express')
    , bodyParser = require('body-parser');

var app = express();

app.use(bodyParser.json());

app.post('/', function(request, response){
    console.log(request.body);      // your JSON

    var jsonRequest = request.body;
    var jsonResponse = {};

    jsonResponse.result = jsonRequest.val1 + jsonRequest.val2;

    response.send(jsonResponse);
});


app.listen(3000);