Krakenjs req.body parameters undefined - kraken.js

Question

Not sure what happened, but req.body parameters are not showing up when I reach my controllers in a POST request.
I have turned off csrf in the middleware.json:
{
"middleware": {
"errorPages": {
"404": "errors/404",
"500": "errors/500",
"503": "errors/503"
},
"session": {
"module": "connect-redis",
"config": {
"ttl": 3600
},
"secret": "<some secret>"
},
"appsec": {
"csrf": false,
"csp": false,
"p3p": false,
"xframe": "SAMEORIGIN"
}
//
// "compiler": {
// "dust": "templates",
// "less": "css"
// },
//
// "static": {
// "srcRoot": "path:./public",
// "rootPath": "path:./.build"
// }
}
}
The controller code:
app.post('/user', function (req, res) {
res.format({
json: function () {
//extract the user from the req
try {
var user = new User();
user.firstName = req.body.firstName;
user.lastName = req.body.lastName;
user.userName = req.body.userName;
user.password = req.body.password;
user.email = req.body.email;
//subsequent code omitted...
} catch (err) {
//handle error
}
}
})
});
The POST request looks like this:
POST /user HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:8000 Cache-Control: no-cache
{ "firstName":"John", "lastName" : "Doe", "userName": "jdoe",
"password" : "somepassword", "email": "jdoe#jdoe.com" }

Answer 1

You have to set the headers in this instance to Content-Type application/json
POST /user HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8000
Content-Type: application/json
Cache-Control: no-cache
{ "firstName":"John", "lastName" : "Doe", "userName": "jdoe", "password" : "somepassword", "email": "jdoe#jdoe.com" }

Answer 2

What binarygiant said. If you're unable to set headers on your request, you can always serialize your JSON before posting it.