Mapping req.body properties to object key

Question

Right now when I want to add an object to the database I do the following:

return BSRequest.create({
            salon_name: req.body.salon_name,
            salon_type: req.body.salon_type,
            employees: req.body.employees,
            postcode: req.body.postcode,
            city: req.body.city,
            website: req.body.website,
            first_name: req.body.first_name,
            last_name: req.body.last_name,
            email: req.body.email,
            phone_number: req.body.phone_number
        })
            .then(bsRequest => res.status(201).send(bsRequest))
            .catch(error => res.status(400).send(error));

Is there a way in Javascript/Node to automatically get the properties of req.body so that these can be mapped to the key of the object? Or some other way that I can simplify it and have less code.

I'm using the sequelize ORM.

Answer 1

if req.body and your database db model keys are same you can just write

return BSRequest.create(req.body).then(bsRequest => res.status(201).send(bsRequest)) .catch(error => res.status(400).send(error));

Comment: I'll not recommend that you directly store values in req.body to the database. Please do include type-check for values you get from frontend before saving them to the database. You can do that by making some modification in Akshay's answer.