On Feb 21, 2016, at 10:58 PM, Duy Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Aria Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 21, 2016, at 21:47, Duy Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm developing rest service using Express framework, I used Postman to test 
>>> this web service, but I got this headache scenario need your help.
>>> 1. api method: /contents (POST)
>>> 2. request body (on Postman) (x-www-form-urlencoded):
>>>   contents[0] : {file_name: 'abc.txt'}
>>>   contents[1]: {file_name: 'xyz.txt'}
>>> 3. server:
>>>  var contents = req.body.contents;
>>>  console.log(contents[0]); //can see value here in string format with all 
>>> information
>>>  console.log(contents[0].file_name); // undefined??
>> 
>> contents[0] is a string -- if you want to parse it to see it as an object, 
>> JSON.parse it.
> 
> Thanks for your hint Aria.
> 
> But even I use JSON.parse, it throws error when parsing, maybe my json string 
> is not in right format?

Correct, your strings are valid JavaScript, but *NOT* valid JSON. For it to be 
valid JSON, the attribute values have to be "double-quoted", not 
'single-quoted'. The attribute names also have to be "double-quoted" instead of 
not quoted at all.

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