If you use Express (high-performance, high-class web development for Node.js), you can do this:
HTML:
<form method="post" action="/">
<input type="text" name="user[name]">
<input type="text" name="user[email]">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
API client:
fetch('/', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
body: JSON.stringify({
user: {
name: "John",
email: "john@example.com"
}
})
});
Node.js: (since Express v4.16.0)
// Parse URL-encoded bodies (as sent by HTML forms)
app.use(express.urlencoded());
// Parse JSON bodies (as sent by API clients)
app.use(express.json());
// Access the parse results as request.body
app.post('/', function(request, response){
console.log(request.body.user.name);
console.log(request.body.user.email);
});
Node.js: (for Express <4.16.0)
const bodyParser = require("body-parser");
/** bodyParser.urlencoded(options)
* Parses the text as URL encoded data (which is how browsers tend to send form data from regular forms set to POST)
* and exposes the resulting object (containing the keys and values) on req.body
*/
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({
extended: true
}));
/**bodyParser.json(options)
* Parses the text as JSON and exposes the resulting object on req.body.
*/
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.post("/", function (req, res) {
console.log(req.body.user.name)
});
You can use the querystring module:
var qs = require('querystring');
function (request, response) {
if (request.method == 'POST') {
var body = '';
request.on('data', function (data) {
body += data;
// Too much POST data, kill the connection!
// 1e6 === 1 * Math.pow(10, 6) === 1 * 1000000 ~~~ 1MB
if (body.length > 1e6)
request.connection.destroy();
});
request.on('end', function () {
var post = qs.parse(body);
// use post['blah'], etc.
});
}
}
Now, for example, if you have an input field with name age, you could access it using the variable post:
console.log(post.age);