IronMQ empty message body from push queue when read from Node.JS / Express.JS

Question

I'm playing with node + express + IronMQ and I'm encountering a little problem.

In my express.js POST callback I'm getting {} as request body but I'm sure that the message content is being pushed from my IronMQ message queue.

Any hint ?

Answer 1

IronMQ have now updated their push queues to send custom headers. If you set the headers to 'Content-Type': 'application/json' in the list of subscribers when creating the queue, then the body gets parsed correctly. eg

# update groups queue
payload =
  subscribers: [
    {
      url: "#{process.env.ROOT_URL}/groups/update"
      headers:
        'Content-Type': 'application/json' # this fixes request parsing issue
    }
  ]
  push_type: 'multicast'
  retries: 3
  retries_delay: 10
  error_queue: 'groups_errors'

url = "https://mq-aws-us-east-1.iron.io/1/projects/#{process.env.IRON_MQ_PROJECT_ID}/queues/groups"

headers =
  'Authorization': "OAuth #{process.env.IRON_MQ_TOKEN}"
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'

result = HTTP.post url, {headers: headers, content: JSON.stringify(payload)}

Here's the relevant change on github