I am trying to send POST data from AngularJS to Express. What I am doing at the moment is trying to send some POST stuff via curl.

I already tried sending the data. It gets send, I get 200 as a response. But whenever I try to access the data via body-parser through req.body I will get a 500 and the error that I posted at the very bottom.

I did a lot of research on that matter (past 4-5 hours...) and I think I checked the following common issues:

• I use some sort of request parser: body-parser


• I put my app.use(...) with body-parser middleware before requiring for routes


• I explicitly tell what Content-Type the POST uses


• I tried both application/json and application/x-www-form-urlencoded

I surrender. StackOverflowers. Help me, please.

curl:

curl -X POST -H Content-Type: application/json -d '{username: gala, email: [email protected], password: 123}' localhost:3000/users

express.js

// glowny plik przygotowujacy aplikacje express



// wczytanie zaleznosci

var express = require('express')

var stylus = require('stylus')

var parser = require('body-parser')

var morgan = require('morgan')

var compress = require('compression')

var methodOverride = require('method-override')



// przygotowanie aplikacji, obsluga middleware i na koncu zwrocenie obiektu aplikacji

module.exports = function() {

    var app = express()



    if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') {

        app.use(morgan('dev'))

    } else if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {

        app.use(compress())

    }



    app.use(parser.urlencoded({ extended: true }))

    app.use(parser.json())



    app.use(methodOverride())



    // uzycie jade jako silnika szablonow dla html

    app.set('views', __dirroot + '/app/views')

    app.set('view engine', 'jade')



    require(__dirroot + '/app/routes/index.server.route.js')(app)

    require(__dirroot + '/app/routes/users.server.route.js')(app)



    // mozliwosci uzywania statycznych plikow z folderu /public

    app.use(express.static(__dirroot + '/public'))



    return app

}

users.server.route.js:

var users = require(__dirroot + '/app/controllers/users.server.controller.js')



module.exports = function(app) {

    app.route('/users').post(function() {

        users.create()

    })

}

users.server.controller.js:

var User = require('mongoose').model('User')



exports.create = function(req, res, next) {

    console.log(req.body)

}

Error message:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'body' of undefined

   at Object.exports.create (/home/gala/Projekty/cantr-crafting/app/controllers/users.server.controller.js:4:20)

   at /home/gala/Projekty/cantr-crafting/app/routes/users.server.route.js:5:15

   at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/home/gala/Projekty/cantr-crafting/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:82:5)

   at next (/home/gala/Projekty/cantr-crafting/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:110:13)

   at Route.dispatch (/home/gala/Projekty/cantr-crafting/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:91:3)

   at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/home/gala/Projekty/cantr-crafting/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:82:5)

   at /home/gala/Projekty/cantr-crafting/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:267:22

   at Function.proto.process_params (/home/gala/Projekty/cantr-crafting/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:321:12)

   at next (/home/gala/Projekty/cantr-crafting/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:261:10)

   at methodOverride (/home/gala/Projekty/cantr-crafting/node_modules/method-override/index.js:77:5)