Thanks Ryan.
I resolved it, we need double quote for both key =&value, so final format
is:
{"file_name": "test.txt"}
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> 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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