Why is req./body.param through a GET request undefined? - node.js

Question

my issue is that req.body.param is undefined but body itself returns the wanted json from the requested source.
This means my iteration wont work too because i need to access req.body.data.length or the count of the id param available.
Thats also why i set num of iterations to 5 to test the output.
Project is created via the express-generator(body-parser is installed).
This is what i get returned
[
{
__v: 0,
id: "0",
appid: 730,
updated_at: "2016-06-05T16:52:39.742Z",
_id: "575458d71d1c41f414e3b29a",
created_at: "2016-06-05T16:52:39.731Z"
},
{
__v: 0,
id: "1",
appid: 730,
updated_at: "2016-06-05T16:52:39.749Z",
_id: "575458d71d1c41f414e3b29b",
created_at: "2016-06-05T16:52:39.737Z"
}, ...
]
This is how the requested api json body looks like:
{
data: [
{
id: 1,
product_name: "Product1",
app: appName,
quantity: 137360,
price: 0.05,
updated_at: "2016-06-04 23:02:03",
median_week: 0.04,
median_month: 0.05,
},
{
id:2,
...,
}
.....
{
id:142640,
...,
}
}
My Function
router.get('/', function(req, res) {
request.get('url/api/items/all/', function (error, response, body) {
console.log(options);
console.log('###########\n '+ body + '\n');
console.log('error '+error);
console.log('req:body '+req.body.data);
if (error && response.statusCode !== 200) {
// request could not be completed
return res.send(400, {message: 'Something went wrong'});
} else {
// get the count
//console.log('body.id.length: '+req.body.id.length);
//console.log('body.data.length: '+req.body.data.length);
//console.log('data.length: '+data.length);
var iterator = 5;//req.body.data.length; //|| req.body.num_items;
// iterate number of times
async.times(iterator, function(number, next){
console.log('iterating'+ number);
var newItem = Item({
id: number,
market_hash_name: req.body.market_hash_name,
appid: '730',
quantity: req.body.quantity,
price: req.body.price,
median_week: req.body.median_week,
median_month: req.body.median_month,
average_median_week: req.body.average_median_week,
trend_week: req.body.trend_week,
trend_month: req.body.trend_month,
total_sold_week: req.body.total_sold_week,
total_sold_month: req.body.total_sold_month,
updated_at: req.body.updated_at
})
// save andt
// call next (which is callback)
newItem.save(next);
}, function(timesErr, timesResult){
// if something failed, return error
// even if 1 item failed to save, it will return error
if(timesErr) {
return res.send(400, {message: 'Something went wrong'});
}
// send the list of saved items;
// or whatever you want
res.status(200).send(timesResult);
});
}
});
});
This Problem is referred to this issue

Answer 1

Try this code
var app = require('express')();
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.get.....

Answer 2

This question is old. For anyone having the same problem here is the Solution. You have to parse body content to json after that you´ll be able to access the param´s. like so const content = JSON.parse(body)