The reason for this message is that body-parser is about to change default value for extended from true to false. Extended protocol uses qs library to parse x-www-form-urlencoded data. The main advantage of qs is that it uses very powerful serialization/deserialization algorithm, capable of serializing any json-like data structure. But web-browsers don’t normally use this … Read more
In general, an express app needs to specify the appropriate body-parser middleware in order for req.body to contain the body. [EDITED] If you required parsing of url-encoded (non-multipart) form data, as well as JSON, try adding: // Put this statement near the top of your module var bodyParser = require(‘body-parser’); // Put these statements before … Read more
If extended is false, you can not post “nested object” person[name] = ‘cw’ // Nested Object = { person: { name: cw } } If extended is true, you can do whatever way that you like.
To handle HTTP POST requests in Express.js version 4 and above, you need to install the middleware module called body-parser. body-parser extracts the entire body portion of an incoming request stream and exposes it on req.body. The middleware was a part of Express.js earlier but now you have to install it separately. This body-parser module … Read more