It sounds like perhaps postData is a Uint8Array but req.write() expects to
be passed either a string or a Buffer
<https://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html#buffer_class_buffer>. Maybe the right
solution is to convert postData to a Buffer before calling req.write().

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 8:49 PM, Jorg Janke <jorg.ja...@accorto.com> wrote:

> I am trying to send/receive protoc with Node and in a Javascript client.
>
> With the Node code below, I get: TypeError: First argument must be a
> string or Buffer
> What am I missing?
>
> The actual server is Java based.
>
> Thanks!
> Jorg
>
> :
>
> var postData = protoRequest.serializeBinary(); // Uint8Array
>
> var options = {
>     protocol: 'https:',
>     hostname: 'xxx',
>     port: 443,
>     path: '/xxx',
>     method: 'POST',
>     headers: {
>         'Content-Type': 'application/application/x-google-protobuf',
>         'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(postData)
>     }
> };
>
> var req = https.request(options, function(res) {
>     res.on('data', function(chunk) {
>         var responseMessage = ProtoResponse.deserializeBinary(chunk);
>         console.log("Response", responseMessage);
>
>     });
> });
> req.write(postData);
> req.end();
>
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