Get request body for post operation

Question

I use the http module and I need to get the req.body currently I try with the following without success .

http.createServer(function (req, res) {

console.log(req.body);

this return undfiend ,any idea why? I send via postman some short text...

Answer 1

req.body is a Express feature, as far as I know... You can retrieve the request body like this with the HTTP module:

var http = require("http"),
server = http.createServer(function(req, res){
  var dataChunks = [],
      dataRaw,
      data;

  req.on("data", function(chunk){
    dataChunks.push(chunk);
  });

  req.on("end", function(){
    dataRaw = Buffer.concat(dataChunks);
    data = dataRaw.toString();

    // Here you can use `data`
    res.end(data);
  });
});

server.listen(80)