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. -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/13EE51C0-A3B0-410F-BCF4-25FB5D792066%40ryandesign.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
