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New to this so this may be a silly question. Testing out a Node.js server and socket.io. Trying to figure out what the constant
request /inform
requests coming to my server are.
Is this a browser thing? Socket thing? I'm not calling for it in my site to my knowledge...
UPDATE: disabled socket.io on server and client and the requests are still coming.
Thanks!
The request continues to come even with browser closed. Changing the port stops the request...
Here is the server (more of a learning experience than a ready for production thing) AND the full logged request after.
//EXAMPLE server without any outside frameworks ie. "Express"
//Require modules
var http = require('http'); //heart of node, handles http requests and responses
var fs = require('fs'); //read and write to file system
var path = require('path'); // used to extract extension from url path
var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) { //creating the server
console.log('request ', request.url); //logs the requested url
var filePath = './public' + request.url; // adds default path plus requested path
if (filePath == './public/')
filePath = './public/index.html'; //if path is left blank, returns homepage
//The HTTP 'Content Type' header field must be correct to return css, image, and other static files
//the following takes care of that
var extname = String(path.extname(filePath)).toLowerCase(); //extract extension convert to lower case string
var contentType = 'text/html'; //default contentType to be sent back
var mimeTypes = { //maps extention to type
'.html': 'text/html',
'.js': 'text/javascript',
'.css': 'text/css',
'.json': 'application/json',
'.png': 'image/png',
'.jpg': 'image/jpg',
'.gif': 'image/gif',
'.wav': 'audio/wav',
'.mp4': 'video/mp4',
'.woff': 'application/font-woff',
'.ttf': 'application/font-ttf',
'.eot': 'application/vnd.ms-fontobject',
'.otf': 'application/font-otf',
'.svg': 'application/image/svg+xml'
};
contentType = mimeTypes[extname] || 'application/octet-stream'; //set contentType to corresponding value
//Content Type is now defined based on request
//Now we serve the file
fs.readFile(filePath, function(error, content) { //invokes fs module to read file at filepath
if (error) { //calls funtion to throw errors or send content as a response
if(error.code == 'ENOENT'){
fs.readFile('./404.html', function(error, content) {
response.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': contentType });
response.end(content, 'utf-8');
});
}
else {
response.writeHead(500);
response.end('Sorry, check with the site admin for error: '+error.code+' ..\n');
response.end();
}
}
else {
response.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': contentType }); //here's where the contentType comes into play
response.end(content, 'utf-8');
}
});
}).listen(8080); //activates server
console.log('Server running port 8080');
/*var io = require('socket.io')(server);
var newShotCount = 0;
io.on('connection', function(socket){
console.log('a user connected');
setInterval (function() {
io.emit('count changed', newShotCount.toString());
console.log(newShotCount.toString());
newShotCount += 1;
},4000)
}); */
request IncomingMessage {
_readableState:
ReadableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
buffer: BufferList { head: null, tail: null, length: 0 },
length: 0,
pipes: null,
pipesCount: 0,
flowing: null,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: false,
sync: true,
needReadable: false,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
resumeScheduled: false,
destroyed: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
awaitDrain: 0,
readingMore: true,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events: {},
_eventsCount: 0,
_maxListeners: undefined,
socket:
Socket {
connecting: false,
_hadError: false,
_handle:
TCP {
reading: true,
owner: [Circular],
onread: [Function: onread],
onconnection: null,
writeQueueSize: 0,
_consumed: true },
_parent: null,
_host: null,
_readableState:
ReadableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
buffer: [Object],
length: 0,
pipes: null,
pipesCount: 0,
flowing: true,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: true,
sync: false,
needReadable: true,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
resumeScheduled: false,
destroyed: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
awaitDrain: 0,
readingMore: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events:
{ end: [Array],
finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
_socketEnd: [Function: onSocketEnd],
drain: [Array],
timeout: [Function: socketOnTimeout],
data: [Function: bound socketOnData],
error: [Function: socketOnError],
close: [Array],
resume: [Function: onSocketResume],
pause: [Function: onSocketPause] },
_eventsCount: 10,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_writableState:
WritableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
finalCalled: false,
needDrain: false,
ending: false,
ended: false,
finished: false,
destroyed: false,
decodeStrings: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
length: 0,
writing: false,
corked: 0,
sync: true,
bufferProcessing: false,
onwrite: [Function: bound onwrite],
writecb: null,
writelen: 0,
bufferedRequest: null,
lastBufferedRequest: null,
pendingcb: 0,
prefinished: false,
errorEmitted: false,
bufferedRequestCount: 0,
corkedRequestsFree: [Object] },
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
_bytesDispatched: 0,
_sockname: null,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server:
Server {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_connections: 1,
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
_unref: false,
allowHalfOpen: true,
pauseOnConnect: false,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
keepAliveTimeout: 5000,
_pendingResponseData: 0,
maxHeadersCount: null,
_connectionKey: '6::::8080',
[Symbol(asyncId)]: 6 },
_server:
Server {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_connections: 1,
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
_unref: false,
allowHalfOpen: true,
pauseOnConnect: false,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
keepAliveTimeout: 5000,
_pendingResponseData: 0,
maxHeadersCount: null,
_connectionKey: '6::::8080',
[Symbol(asyncId)]: 6 },
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext:
TimersList {
_idleNext: [Circular],
_idlePrev: [Circular],
_timer: [Object],
_unrefed: true,
msecs: 120000,
nextTick: false },
_idlePrev:
TimersList {
_idleNext: [Circular],
_idlePrev: [Circular],
_timer: [Object],
_unrefed: true,
msecs: 120000,
nextTick: false },
_idleStart: 4742,
_destroyed: false,
parser:
HTTPParser {
'0': [Function: parserOnHeaders],
'1': [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
'2': [Function: parserOnBody],
'3': [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
'4': [Function: bound onParserExecute],
_headers: [],
_url: '',
_consumed: true,
socket: [Circular],
incoming: [Circular],
outgoing: null,
maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
onIncoming: [Function: bound parserOnIncoming] },
on: [Function: socketOnWrap],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage:
ServerResponse {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 1,
_maxListeners: undefined,
output: [],
outputEncodings: [],
outputCallbacks: [],
outputSize: 0,
writable: true,
_last: false,
upgrading: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: false,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
_removedConnection: false,
_removedContLen: false,
_removedTE: false,
_contentLength: null,
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: false,
_headerSent: false,
socket: [Circular],
connection: [Circular],
_header: null,
_onPendingData: [Function: bound updateOutgoingData],
_sent100: false,
_expect_continue: false,
[Symbol(outHeadersKey)]: null },
[Symbol(asyncId)]: 9,
[Symbol(bytesRead)]: 0,
[Symbol(asyncId)]: 11,
[Symbol(triggerAsyncId)]: 9 },
connection:
Socket {
connecting: false,
_hadError: false,
_handle:
TCP {
reading: true,
owner: [Circular],
onread: [Function: onread],
onconnection: null,
writeQueueSize: 0,
_consumed: true },
_parent: null,
_host: null,
_readableState:
ReadableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
buffer: [Object],
length: 0,
pipes: null,
pipesCount: 0,
flowing: true,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: true,
sync: false,
needReadable: true,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
resumeScheduled: false,
destroyed: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
awaitDrain: 0,
readingMore: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events:
{ end: [Array],
finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
_socketEnd: [Function: onSocketEnd],
drain: [Array],
timeout: [Function: socketOnTimeout],
data: [Function: bound socketOnData],
error: [Function: socketOnError],
close: [Array],
resume: [Function: onSocketResume],
pause: [Function: onSocketPause] },
_eventsCount: 10,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_writableState:
WritableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
finalCalled: false,
needDrain: false,
ending: false,
ended: false,
finished: false,
destroyed: false,
decodeStrings: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
length: 0,
writing: false,
corked: 0,
sync: true,
bufferProcessing: false,
onwrite: [Function: bound onwrite],
writecb: null,
writelen: 0,
bufferedRequest: null,
lastBufferedRequest: null,
pendingcb: 0,
prefinished: false,
errorEmitted: false,
bufferedRequestCount: 0,
corkedRequestsFree: [Object] },
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
_bytesDispatched: 0,
_sockname: null,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server:
Server {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_connections: 1,
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
_unref: false,
allowHalfOpen: true,
pauseOnConnect: false,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
keepAliveTimeout: 5000,
_pendingResponseData: 0,
maxHeadersCount: null,
_connectionKey: '6::::8080',
[Symbol(asyncId)]: 6 },
_server:
Server {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_connections: 1,
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
_unref: false,
allowHalfOpen: true,
pauseOnConnect: false,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
keepAliveTimeout: 5000,
_pendingResponseData: 0,
maxHeadersCount: null,
_connectionKey: '6::::8080',
[Symbol(asyncId)]: 6 },
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext:
TimersList {
_idleNext: [Circular],
_idlePrev: [Circular],
_timer: [Object],
_unrefed: true,
msecs: 120000,
nextTick: false },
_idlePrev:
TimersList {
_idleNext: [Circular],
_idlePrev: [Circular],
_timer: [Object],
_unrefed: true,
msecs: 120000,
nextTick: false },
_idleStart: 4742,
_destroyed: false,
parser:
HTTPParser {
'0': [Function: parserOnHeaders],
'1': [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
'2': [Function: parserOnBody],
'3': [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
'4': [Function: bound onParserExecute],
_headers: [],
_url: '',
_consumed: true,
socket: [Circular],
incoming: [Circular],
outgoing: null,
maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
onIncoming: [Function: bound parserOnIncoming] },
on: [Function: socketOnWrap],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage:
ServerResponse {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 1,
_maxListeners: undefined,
output: [],
outputEncodings: [],
outputCallbacks: [],
outputSize: 0,
writable: true,
_last: false,
upgrading: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: false,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
_removedConnection: false,
_removedContLen: false,
_removedTE: false,
_contentLength: null,
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: false,
_headerSent: false,
socket: [Circular],
connection: [Circular],
_header: null,
_onPendingData: [Function: bound updateOutgoingData],
_sent100: false,
_expect_continue: false,
[Symbol(outHeadersKey)]: null },
[Symbol(asyncId)]: 9,
[Symbol(bytesRead)]: 0,
[Symbol(asyncId)]: 11,
[Symbol(triggerAsyncId)]: 9 },
httpVersionMajor: 1,
httpVersionMinor: 1,
httpVersion: '1.1',
complete: false,
headers:
{ host: '192.168.1.31',
connection: 'Close',
'user-agent': 'AirControl Agent v1.0',
'content-type': 'application/x-binary',
'content-length': '3960' },
rawHeaders:
[ 'Host',
'192.168.1.31',
'Connection',
'Close',
'User-Agent',
'AirControl Agent v1.0',
'Content-Type',
'application/x-binary',
'Content-Length',
'3960' ],
trailers: {},
rawTrailers: [],
upgrade: false,
url: '/inform',
method: 'POST',
statusCode: null,
statusMessage: null,
client:
Socket {
connecting: false,
_hadError: false,
_handle:
TCP {
reading: true,
owner: [Circular],
onread: [Function: onread],
onconnection: null,
writeQueueSize: 0,
_consumed: true },
_parent: null,
_host: null,
_readableState:
ReadableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
buffer: [Object],
length: 0,
pipes: null,
pipesCount: 0,
flowing: true,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: true,
sync: false,
needReadable: true,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
resumeScheduled: false,
destroyed: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
awaitDrain: 0,
readingMore: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events:
{ end: [Array],
finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
_socketEnd: [Function: onSocketEnd],
drain: [Array],
timeout: [Function: socketOnTimeout],
data: [Function: bound socketOnData],
error: [Function: socketOnError],
close: [Array],
resume: [Function: onSocketResume],
pause: [Function: onSocketPause] },
_eventsCount: 10,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_writableState:
WritableState {
objectMode: false,
highWaterMark: 16384,
finalCalled: false,
needDrain: false,
ending: false,
ended: false,
finished: false,
destroyed: false,
decodeStrings: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
length: 0,
writing: false,
corked: 0,
sync: true,
bufferProcessing: false,
onwrite: [Function: bound onwrite],
writecb: null,
writelen: 0,
bufferedRequest: null,
lastBufferedRequest: null,
pendingcb: 0,
prefinished: false,
errorEmitted: false,
bufferedRequestCount: 0,
corkedRequestsFree: [Object] },
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
_bytesDispatched: 0,
_sockname: null,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server:
Server {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_connections: 1,
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
_unref: false,
allowHalfOpen: true,
pauseOnConnect: false,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
keepAliveTimeout: 5000,
_pendingResponseData: 0,
maxHeadersCount: null,
_connectionKey: '6::::8080',
[Symbol(asyncId)]: 6 },
_server:
Server {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
_connections: 1,
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
_unref: false,
allowHalfOpen: true,
pauseOnConnect: false,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
keepAliveTimeout: 5000,
_pendingResponseData: 0,
maxHeadersCount: null,
_connectionKey: '6::::8080',
[Symbol(asyncId)]: 6 },
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext:
TimersList {
_idleNext: [Circular],
_idlePrev: [Circular],
_timer: [Object],
_unrefed: true,
msecs: 120000,
nextTick: false },
_idlePrev:
TimersList {
_idleNext: [Circular],
_idlePrev: [Circular],
_timer: [Object],
_unrefed: true,
msecs: 120000,
nextTick: false },
_idleStart: 4742,
_destroyed: false,
parser:
HTTPParser {
'0': [Function: parserOnHeaders],
'1': [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
'2': [Function: parserOnBody],
'3': [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
'4': [Function: bound onParserExecute],
_headers: [],
_url: '',
_consumed: true,
socket: [Circular],
incoming: [Circular],
outgoing: null,
maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
onIncoming: [Function: bound parserOnIncoming] },
on: [Function: socketOnWrap],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage:
ServerResponse {
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_eventsCount: 1,
_maxListeners: undefined,
output: [],
outputEncodings: [],
outputCallbacks: [],
outputSize: 0,
writable: true,
_last: false,
upgrading: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: false,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
_removedConnection: false,
_removedContLen: false,
_removedTE: false,
_contentLength: null,
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: false,
_headerSent: false,
socket: [Circular],
connection: [Circular],
_header: null,
_onPendingData: [Function: bound updateOutgoingData],
_sent100: false,
_expect_continue: false,
[Symbol(outHeadersKey)]: null },
[Symbol(asyncId)]: 9,
[Symbol(bytesRead)]: 0,
[Symbol(asyncId)]: 11,
[Symbol(triggerAsyncId)]: 9 },
_consuming: false,
_dumped: false }
Well it was coming from my local network... Several UniFi aps around and apparently they were broadcasting and polling
If a user tries to navigate to http://www.example.com/news.html (or any other html page that is not the login page ), if the user is not logged in, I need to redirect him to the login page.
I tried the following code but once I am inside the if's true code block the res.render or the res.redirect is not working at all. If i console.log something there it works properly. So I guess there's something wrong with the res object.
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
if (req.session.user == undefined) {
// if user is not logged-in redirect back to login page //
res.render('es/login', {
title: 'Hello - Please Login To Your Account'
});
} else {
next();
}
});
If I console.log(res) I get:
{ domain: null,
_events: { finish: [Function], header: [Function] },
_maxListeners: 10,
output: [],
outputEncodings: [],
writable: true,
_last: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
_headerSent: false,
_header: '',
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: false,
_hangupClose: false,
socket:
{ _connecting: false,
_handle:
{ fd: 24,
writeQueueSize: 0,
owner: [Circular],
onread: [Function: onread],
reading: true },
_readableState:
{ highWaterMark: 16384,
buffer: [],
length: 0,
pipes: null,
pipesCount: 0,
flowing: false,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: true,
calledRead: true,
sync: false,
needReadable: true,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
objectMode: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
ranOut: false,
awaitDrain: 0,
readingMore: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events:
{ end: [Object],
finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
_socketEnd: [Function: onSocketEnd],
drain: [Object],
timeout: [Function],
error: [Function],
close: [Object] },
_maxListeners: 10,
_writableState:
{ highWaterMark: 16384,
objectMode: false,
needDrain: false,
ending: false,
ended: false,
finished: false,
decodeStrings: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
length: 0,
writing: false,
sync: false,
bufferProcessing: false,
onwrite: [Function],
writecb: null,
writelen: 0,
buffer: [],
errorEmitted: false },
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
onend: [Function],
destroyed: false,
bytesRead: 3233,
_bytesDispatched: 306029,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server:
{ domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_maxListeners: 10,
_connections: 6,
connections: [Getter/Setter],
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
allowHalfOpen: true,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
_connectionKey: '4:0.0.0.0:3000' },
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext:
{ _connecting: false,
_handle: [Object],
_readableState: [Object],
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_maxListeners: 10,
_writableState: [Object],
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
onend: [Function],
destroyed: false,
bytesRead: 2662,
_bytesDispatched: 272567,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server: [Object],
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext: [Object],
_idlePrev: [Circular],
_idleStart: 1426765947031,
_monotonicStartTime: 121119709,
parser: [Object],
ondata: [Function],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage: null },
_idlePrev: { _idleNext: [Circular], _idlePrev: [Object] },
_idleStart: 1426765947035,
_monotonicStartTime: 121119713,
parser:
{ _headers: [],
_url: '',
onHeaders: [Function: parserOnHeaders],
onHeadersComplete: [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
onBody: [Function: parserOnBody],
onMessageComplete: [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
socket: [Circular],
incoming: [Object],
maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
onIncoming: [Function] },
ondata: [Function],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage: [Circular] },
connection:
{ _connecting: false,
_handle:
{ fd: 24,
writeQueueSize: 0,
owner: [Circular],
onread: [Function: onread],
reading: true },
_readableState:
{ highWaterMark: 16384,
buffer: [],
length: 0,
pipes: null,
pipesCount: 0,
flowing: false,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: true,
calledRead: true,
sync: false,
needReadable: true,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
objectMode: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
ranOut: false,
awaitDrain: 0,
readingMore: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events:
{ end: [Object],
finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
_socketEnd: [Function: onSocketEnd],
drain: [Object],
timeout: [Function],
error: [Function],
close: [Object] },
_maxListeners: 10,
_writableState:
{ highWaterMark: 16384,
objectMode: false,
needDrain: false,
ending: false,
ended: false,
finished: false,
decodeStrings: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
length: 0,
writing: false,
sync: false,
bufferProcessing: false,
onwrite: [Function],
writecb: null,
writelen: 0,
buffer: [],
errorEmitted: false },
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
onend: [Function],
destroyed: false,
bytesRead: 3233,
_bytesDispatched: 306029,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server:
{ domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_maxListeners: 10,
_connections: 6,
connections: [Getter/Setter],
_handle: [Object],
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maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
onIncoming: [Function] },
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handle: [Function],
listen: [Function],
setMaxListeners: [Function: setMaxListeners],
emit: [Function: emit],
addListener: [Function: addListener],
on: [Function: addListener],
once: [Function: once],
removeListener: [Function: removeListener],
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listeners: [Function: listeners],
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[Object],
[Object],
[Object],
[Object],
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[Object],
[Object],
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[Object],
[Object],
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disabled: [Function],
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disable: [Function],
configure: [Function],
get: [Function],
post: [Function],
put: [Function],
head: [Function],
delete: [Function],
options: [Function],
trace: [Function],
copy: [Function],
lock: [Function],
mkcol: [Function],
move: [Function],
propfind: [Function],
proppatch: [Function],
unlock: [Function],
report: [Function],
mkactivity: [Function],
checkout: [Function],
merge: [Function],
'm-search': [Function],
notify: [Function],
subscribe: [Function],
unsubscribe: [Function],
patch: [Function],
all: [Function],
del: [Function],
render: [Function],
request: {},
response: {},
cache: {},
settings:
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env: 'development',
views: '/Users/jaitor/Documents/f1racing/app/server/views',
'jsonp callback name': 'callback',
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locals: { [Function: locals] settings: [Object], pretty: true },
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encoding: null },
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domain: null,
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parser: [Object],
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domain: null,
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allowHalfOpen: true,
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parser: [Object],
ondata: [Function],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage: [Circular] },
httpVersion: '1.1',
complete: true,
headers:
{ host: 'localhost:3000',
'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0',
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'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
'x-requested-with': 'XMLHttpRequest',
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client:
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readable: true,
domain: null,
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parser: [Object],
ondata: [Function],
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httpVersionMinor: 1,
upgrade: false,
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path: '/getraces?community=54e07946e4b0dff6d40bde1c',
href: '/getraces?community=54e07946e4b0dff6d40bde1c' },
query: { community: '54e07946e4b0dff6d40bde1c' },
app:
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use: [Function],
handle: [Function],
listen: [Function],
setMaxListeners: [Function: setMaxListeners],
emit: [Function: emit],
addListener: [Function: addListener],
on: [Function: addListener],
once: [Function: once],
removeListener: [Function: removeListener],
removeAllListeners: [Function: removeAllListeners],
listeners: [Function: listeners],
route: '/',
stack: [Object],
init: [Function],
defaultConfiguration: [Function],
engine: [Function],
param: [Function],
set: [Function],
path: [Function],
enabled: [Function],
disabled: [Function],
enable: [Function],
disable: [Function],
configure: [Function],
get: [Function],
post: [Function],
put: [Function],
head: [Function],
delete: [Function],
options: [Function],
trace: [Function],
copy: [Function],
lock: [Function],
mkcol: [Function],
move: [Function],
propfind: [Function],
proppatch: [Function],
unlock: [Function],
report: [Function],
mkactivity: [Function],
checkout: [Function],
merge: [Function],
'm-search': [Function],
notify: [Function],
subscribe: [Function],
unsubscribe: [Function],
patch: [Function],
all: [Function],
del: [Function],
render: [Function],
request: {},
response: {},
cache: {},
settings: [Object],
engines: {},
viewCallbacks: [],
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_router: [Object],
routes: [Object],
router: [Getter],
locals: [Object],
_usedRouter: true },
res: [Circular],
next: [Function: next],
body: {},
files: {},
secret: undefined,
cookies:
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addListener: [Function: addListener],
on: [Function: addListener],
pause: [Function],
resume: [Function],
read: [Function],
session: { cookie: [Object] },
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locale: 'es',
rawLocale:
{ code: 'es',
language: 'es',
normalized: 'es',
score: 1,
defaulted: false } },
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locals: [Function: locals],
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{ domain: null,
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output: [],
outputEncodings: [],
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chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
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_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: false,
_hangupClose: false,
socket:
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{ fd: 24,
writeQueueSize: 0,
owner: [Circular],
onread: [Function: onread],
reading: true },
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{ highWaterMark: 16384,
buffer: [],
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ended: false,
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calledRead: true,
sync: false,
needReadable: true,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
objectMode: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
ranOut: false,
awaitDrain: 0,
readingMore: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
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finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
_socketEnd: [Function: onSocketEnd],
drain: [Object],
timeout: [Function],
error: [Function],
close: [Object] },
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{ highWaterMark: 16384,
objectMode: false,
needDrain: false,
ending: false,
ended: false,
finished: false,
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server:
{ domain: null,
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connections: [Getter/Setter],
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allowHalfOpen: true,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
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_idleNext:
{ _connecting: false,
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_readableState: [Object],
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
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_writableState: [Object],
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
onend: [Function],
destroyed: false,
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server: [Object],
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_idleNext: [Object],
_idlePrev: [Circular],
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parser: [Object],
ondata: [Function],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage: null },
_idlePrev: { _idleNext: [Circular], _idlePrev: [Object] },
_idleStart: 1426765947654,
_monotonicStartTime: 121120332,
parser:
{ _headers: [],
_url: '',
onHeaders: [Function: parserOnHeaders],
onHeadersComplete: [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
onBody: [Function: parserOnBody],
onMessageComplete: [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
socket: [Circular],
incoming: [Object],
maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
onIncoming: [Function] },
ondata: [Function],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage: [Circular] },
connection:
{ _connecting: false,
_handle:
{ fd: 24,
writeQueueSize: 0,
owner: [Circular],
onread: [Function: onread],
reading: true },
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......... continues....}
Express version I am using: "3.4.4"
EDIT 14/07/2015. My problem still remains and I am writing more code to see if someone can help me...
My main app.js code:
var express = require('express');
var http = require('http');
var app = express();
app.configure(function(){
app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 3000);
app.set('views', __dirname + '/app/server/views');
app.set('view engine', 'jade');
app.locals.pretty = true;
// app.use(express.favicon());
// app.use(express.logger('dev'));
app.use(express.bodyParser());
app.use(express.cookieParser());
app.use(express.session({ secret: 'Whateverpass',cookie:{maxAge:30 * 24 * 60*60*1000}}));
app.use(express.methodOverride());
app.use(require('stylus').middleware({ src: __dirname + '/app/public' }));
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/app/public'));
});
if ('development' == app.get('env')) {
}
app.configure('development', function(){
app.use(express.errorHandler());
});
require('./app/server/router')(app);
var httpserver = http.createServer(app).listen(app.get('port'), function(){
console.log('Express server listening on port ' + app.get('port'));
});
My router.js located in ('./app/server/router'):
var locale = require("locale");
var supported = new locale.Locales(["en", "es"]);
module.exports = function(app) {
app.use(locale(supported));
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
if (req.session.user == undefined) {
// if user is not logged-in redirect back to login page //
res.render('es/login', {
title: 'Hello - Please Login To Your Account'
});
} else {
next();
}
});
app.get('/', function(req, res){
[...]
});
app.post('/', function(req, res){
[...]
});
[...]
}
Try using return before your res.render or res.redirect
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
if (req.session.user == undefined) {
return res.render('es/login', { title: 'Hello - Please Login To Your Account' });
}
else {
next();
}
});
Try writing your return statement like so:
return (
res.render('es/login', {
title: 'Hello - Please Login To Your Account'
});
);
How to log Node.js request?
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function handler(req, res) {
console.log(req);
}).listen(1337, '127.0.0.1');
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/');
For example, when using console.log(req);, I get long req object see below, but for logging it should much shorter like.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:1337
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent:
I read doc on http.IncomingMessage but there is no method to get all main values at once. The closest was
console.log(req.method, req.url, req.httpVersion, req.headers);
with output
Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/
GET / 1.1 { host: '127.0.0.1:1337',
connection: 'Keep-Alive',
'user-agent': 'RestClient-Tool' }
Full req object
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buffer: [],
length: 0,
pipes: null,
pipesCount: 0,
flowing: false,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: false,
calledRead: false,
sync: true,
needReadable: false,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
objectMode: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
ranOut: false,
awaitDrain: 0,
readingMore: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events: {},
_maxListeners: 10,
socket:
{ _connecting: false,
_handle:
{ fd: null,
writeQueueSize: 0,
owner: [Circular],
onread: [Function: onread],
reading: true },
_readableState:
{ highWaterMark: 16384,
buffer: [],
length: 0,
pipes: null,
pipesCount: 0,
flowing: false,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: true,
calledRead: true,
sync: false,
needReadable: true,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
objectMode: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
ranOut: false,
awaitDrain: 0,
readingMore: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events:
{ end: [Object],
finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
_socketEnd: [Function: onSocketEnd],
drain: [Object],
timeout: [Function],
error: [Function],
close: [Object] },
_maxListeners: 10,
_writableState:
{ highWaterMark: 16384,
objectMode: false,
needDrain: false,
ending: false,
ended: false,
finished: false,
decodeStrings: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
length: 0,
writing: false,
sync: false,
bufferProcessing: false,
onwrite: [Function],
writecb: null,
writelen: 0,
buffer: [] },
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
onend: [Function],
destroyed: false,
errorEmitted: false,
bytesRead: 798,
_bytesDispatched: 156,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server:
{ domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_maxListeners: 10,
_connections: 1,
connections: [Getter/Setter],
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
allowHalfOpen: true,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
_connectionKey: '4:127.0.0.1:1337' },
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext: { _idleNext: [Circular], _idlePrev: [Circular] },
_idlePrev: { _idleNext: [Circular], _idlePrev: [Circular] },
_idleStart: 1413789077709,
parser:
{ _headers: [],
_url: '',
onHeaders: [Function: parserOnHeaders],
onHeadersComplete: [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
onBody: [Function: parserOnBody],
onMessageComplete: [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
socket: [Circular],
incoming: [Circular],
maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
onIncoming: [Function] },
ondata: [Function],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage:
{ domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_maxListeners: 10,
output: [],
outputEncodings: [],
writable: true,
_last: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
_headerSent: false,
_header: '',
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: false,
_hangupClose: false,
socket: [Circular],
connection: [Circular] } },
connection:
{ _connecting: false,
_handle:
{ fd: null,
writeQueueSize: 0,
owner: [Circular],
onread: [Function: onread],
reading: true },
_readableState:
{ highWaterMark: 16384,
buffer: [],
length: 0,
pipes: null,
pipesCount: 0,
flowing: false,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: true,
calledRead: true,
sync: false,
needReadable: true,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
objectMode: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
ranOut: false,
awaitDrain: 0,
readingMore: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events:
{ end: [Object],
finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
_socketEnd: [Function: onSocketEnd],
drain: [Object],
timeout: [Function],
error: [Function],
close: [Object] },
_maxListeners: 10,
_writableState:
{ highWaterMark: 16384,
objectMode: false,
needDrain: false,
ending: false,
ended: false,
finished: false,
decodeStrings: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
length: 0,
writing: false,
sync: false,
bufferProcessing: false,
onwrite: [Function],
writecb: null,
writelen: 0,
buffer: [] },
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
onend: [Function],
destroyed: false,
errorEmitted: false,
bytesRead: 798,
_bytesDispatched: 156,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server:
{ domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_maxListeners: 10,
_connections: 1,
connections: [Getter/Setter],
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
allowHalfOpen: true,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
_connectionKey: '4:127.0.0.1:1337' },
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext: { _idleNext: [Circular], _idlePrev: [Circular] },
_idlePrev: { _idleNext: [Circular], _idlePrev: [Circular] },
_idleStart: 1413789077709,
parser:
{ _headers: [],
_url: '',
onHeaders: [Function: parserOnHeaders],
onHeadersComplete: [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
onBody: [Function: parserOnBody],
onMessageComplete: [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
socket: [Circular],
incoming: [Circular],
maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
onIncoming: [Function] },
ondata: [Function],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage:
{ domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_maxListeners: 10,
output: [],
outputEncodings: [],
writable: true,
_last: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
_headerSent: false,
_header: '',
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: false,
_hangupClose: false,
socket: [Circular],
connection: [Circular] } },
httpVersion: '1.1',
complete: false,
headers:
{ host: '127.0.0.1:1337',
connection: 'keep-alive',
'access-control-request-method': 'POST',
origin: 'null',
'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.104 Safari/537.36',
'access-control-request-headers': 'accept, content-type',
accept: '*/*',
'accept-encoding': 'gzip,deflate,sdch',
'accept-language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8,zh-CN;q=0.6,zh;q=0.4' },
trailers: {},
_pendings: [],
_pendingIndex: 0,
url: '/',
method: 'OPTIONS',
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owner: [Circular],
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{ highWaterMark: 16384,
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calledRead: true,
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needReadable: true,
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readableListening: false,
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readingMore: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
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finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
_socketEnd: [Function: onSocketEnd],
drain: [Object],
timeout: [Function],
error: [Function],
close: [Object] },
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{ highWaterMark: 16384,
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needDrain: false,
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server:
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connections: [Getter/Setter],
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
allowHalfOpen: true,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
_connectionKey: '4:127.0.0.1:1337' },
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext: { _idleNext: [Circular], _idlePrev: [Circular] },
_idlePrev: { _idleNext: [Circular], _idlePrev: [Circular] },
_idleStart: 1413789077709,
parser:
{ _headers: [],
_url: '',
onHeaders: [Function: parserOnHeaders],
onHeadersComplete: [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
onBody: [Function: parserOnBody],
onMessageComplete: [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
socket: [Circular],
incoming: [Circular],
maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
onIncoming: [Function] },
ondata: [Function],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage:
{ domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_maxListeners: 10,
output: [],
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writable: true,
_last: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
_headerSent: false,
_header: '',
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: false,
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related to Per request logging in Node.js
console.log(req.method, req.url, 'HTTP/' + req.httpVersion);
for (var name in req.headers)
console.log(name + ':', req.headers[name]);
I've just started to fiddle with three new (to me) frameworks/products: MongoDB, NodeJS and AngularJS.
What I'm trying to accomplish is to have a simple form submit a value and have that value written to the database. I've gotten to a point where my value is submitted using $http.post in my Angular app and I do get my node.js backend function called but my req parameter (se below) in undefined. From Google Chromes Network monitor I can see that a POST request is submitted and that the payload contains the value I've entered.
I really don't understand why it's not available in the receiving end. Please help.
Now for some snippets (not the entire files):
server.js:
var express = require('express'),
menu = require('./routes/menu'),
http = require('http'),
app = express(),
httpServer = http.createServer(app),
bodyParser = require('body-parser');
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.set('port', 3000);
app.use(express.static(__dirname));
app.get('/menuItems', menu.getMenuItems);
app.post('/menuItems', function(req, res) { console.log(req); });
httpServer.listen(app.get('port'), function () {
console.log("Express server listening on port %s.", httpServer.address().port);
});
menu.js:
exports.addMenuItem = function(req, res) {
var menuItem = req.body; <===req.body is undefined
console.log('Adding menuItem: ' + JSON.stringify(menuItem));
db.collection('menuItems', function(err, collection) {
collection.insert(menuItem, {safe:true}, function(err, result) {
if (err) {
res.send({'error':'An error has occurred'});
} else {
console.log('Success: ' + JSON.stringify(result[0]));
res.send(result[0]);
}
});
});
};
app.js:
(function () {
var app = angular.module('jdk', []);
app.controller('MenuItemController', function ($scope, $http) {
$scope.processForm = function () {
$http.post('/menuItems', JSON.stringify($scope.formData))
.success(function (data) {
console.log(data);
});
};
});
})();
I think I've dome everything but apparently not. I also tried installing and using 'body-paarser' in my server.js but the result was the same.
When my server crashes it dumps something like this:
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pipesCount: 0,
flowing: false,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: false,
calledRead: false,
sync: true,
needReadable: false,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
objectMode: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
ranOut: false,
awaitDrain: 0,
readingMore: false,
oldMode: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events: {},
_maxListeners: 10,
socket:
{ _connecting: false,
_handle:
{ fd: null,
writeQueueSize: 0,
owner: [Circular],
onread: [Function: onread],
reading: true },
_readableState:
{ highWaterMark: 16384,
buffer: [],
length: 0,
pipes: null,
pipesCount: 0,
flowing: false,
ended: false,
endEmitted: false,
reading: true,
calledRead: true,
sync: false,
needReadable: true,
emittedReadable: false,
readableListening: false,
objectMode: false,
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awaitDrain: 0,
readingMore: false,
oldMode: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
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{ end: [Object],
finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
_socketEnd: [Function: onSocketEnd],
drain: [Object],
timeout: [Function],
error: [Object],
close: [Object] },
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_writableState:
{ highWaterMark: 16384,
objectMode: false,
needDrain: false,
ending: false,
ended: false,
finished: false,
decodeStrings: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
length: 0,
writing: false,
sync: false,
bufferProcessing: false,
onwrite: [Function],
writecb: null,
writelen: 0,
buffer: [],
errorEmitted: false },
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
onend: [Function],
destroyed: false,
bytesRead: 2496,
_bytesDispatched: 157759,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server:
{ domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_maxListeners: 10,
_connections: 6,
connections: [Getter/Setter],
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
allowHalfOpen: true,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
_connectionKey: '4:0.0.0.0:3000' },
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext:
{ _connecting: false,
_handle: [Object],
_readableState: [Object],
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_maxListeners: 10,
_writableState: [Object],
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
onend: [Function],
destroyed: false,
bytesRead: 375,
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_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server: [Object],
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_idleNext: [Object],
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parser: [Object],
ondata: [Function],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage: null },
_idlePrev: { _idleNext: [Circular], _idlePrev: [Object] },
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parser:
{ _headers: [],
_url: '',
onHeaders: [Function: parserOnHeaders],
onHeadersComplete: [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
onBody: [Function: parserOnBody],
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socket: [Circular],
incoming: [Circular],
maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
onIncoming: [Function] },
ondata: [Function],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage:
{ domain: null,
_events: [Object],
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output: [],
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chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
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finished: false,
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connection: [Circular],
_headers: [Object],
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req: [Circular],
locals: {} } },
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defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
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decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
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finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
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drain: [Object],
timeout: [Function],
error: [Object],
close: [Object] },
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{ highWaterMark: 16384,
objectMode: false,
needDrain: false,
ending: false,
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finished: false,
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defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
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writing: false,
sync: false,
bufferProcessing: false,
onwrite: [Function],
writecb: null,
writelen: 0,
buffer: [],
errorEmitted: false },
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
onend: [Function],
destroyed: false,
bytesRead: 2496,
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_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server:
{ domain: null,
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connections: [Getter/Setter],
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allowHalfOpen: true,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
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_idleNext:
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readable: true,
domain: null,
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_maxListeners: 10,
_writableState: [Object],
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
onend: [Function],
destroyed: false,
bytesRead: 375,
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server: [Object],
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parser: [Object],
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_paused: false,
_httpMessage: null },
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parser:
{ _headers: [],
_url: '',
onHeaders: [Function: parserOnHeaders],
onHeadersComplete: [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
onBody: [Function: parserOnBody],
onMessageComplete: [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
socket: [Circular],
incoming: [Circular],
maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
onIncoming: [Function] },
ondata: [Function],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage:
{ domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_maxListeners: 10,
output: [],
outputEncodings: [],
writable: true,
_last: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
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_header: '',
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: false,
_hangupClose: false,
socket: [Circular],
connection: [Circular],
_headers: [Object],
_headerNames: [Object],
req: [Circular],
locals: {} } },
httpVersion: '1.1',
complete: false,
headers:
{ host: 'localhost:3000',
connection: 'keep-alive',
'content-length': '19',
accept: 'application/json, text/plain, */*',
origin: 'http://localhost:3000',
'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36',
'content-type': 'application/json;charset=UTF-8',
referer: 'http://localhost:3000/admin/',
'accept-encoding': 'gzip,deflate,sdch',
'accept-language': 'en,da;q=0.8,nb;q=0.6,sv;q=0.4' },
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method: 'POST',
statusCode: null,
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{ fd: null,
writeQueueSize: 0,
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onread: [Function: onread],
reading: true },
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flowing: false,
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readableListening: false,
objectMode: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
ranOut: false,
awaitDrain: 0,
readingMore: false,
oldMode: false,
decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events:
{ end: [Object],
finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
_socketEnd: [Function: onSocketEnd],
drain: [Object],
timeout: [Function],
error: [Object],
close: [Object] },
_maxListeners: 10,
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{ highWaterMark: 16384,
objectMode: false,
needDrain: false,
ending: false,
ended: false,
finished: false,
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defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
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writing: false,
sync: false,
bufferProcessing: false,
onwrite: [Function],
writecb: null,
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buffer: [],
errorEmitted: false },
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
onend: [Function],
destroyed: false,
bytesRead: 2496,
_bytesDispatched: 157759,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server:
{ domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_maxListeners: 10,
_connections: 6,
connections: [Getter/Setter],
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
allowHalfOpen: true,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
_connectionKey: '4:0.0.0.0:3000' },
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext:
{ _connecting: false,
_handle: [Object],
_readableState: [Object],
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_maxListeners: 10,
_writableState: [Object],
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
onend: [Function],
destroyed: false,
bytesRead: 375,
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_pendingEncoding: '',
server: [Object],
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext: [Object],
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parser: [Object],
ondata: [Function],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage: null },
_idlePrev: { _idleNext: [Circular], _idlePrev: [Object] },
_idleStart: 1406644399010,
parser:
{ _headers: [],
_url: '',
onHeaders: [Function: parserOnHeaders],
onHeadersComplete: [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
onBody: [Function: parserOnBody],
onMessageComplete: [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
socket: [Circular],
incoming: [Circular],
maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
onIncoming: [Function] },
ondata: [Function],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage:
{ domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_maxListeners: 10,
output: [],
outputEncodings: [],
writable: true,
_last: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
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_trailer: '',
finished: false,
_hangupClose: false,
socket: [Circular],
connection: [Circular],
_headers: [Object],
_headerNames: [Object],
req: [Circular],
locals: {} } },
_consuming: false,
_dumped: false,
httpVersionMajor: 1,
httpVersionMinor: 1,
upgrade: false,
next: [Function: next],
baseUrl: '',
originalUrl: '/menuItems',
_parsedUrl:
{ protocol: null,
slashes: null,
auth: null,
host: null,
port: null,
hostname: null,
hash: null,
search: null,
query: null,
pathname: '/menuItems',
path: '/menuItems',
href: '/menuItems' },
params: {},
query: {},
res:
{ domain: null,
_events: { finish: [Function] },
_maxListeners: 10,
output: [],
outputEncodings: [],
writable: true,
_last: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
_headerSent: false,
_header: '',
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: false,
_hangupClose: false,
socket:
{ _connecting: false,
_handle: [Object],
_readableState: [Object],
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_maxListeners: 10,
_writableState: [Object],
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
onend: [Function],
destroyed: false,
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_bytesDispatched: 157759,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server: [Object],
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext: [Object],
_idlePrev: [Object],
_idleStart: 1406644399010,
parser: [Object],
ondata: [Function],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage: [Circular] },
connection:
{ _connecting: false,
_handle: [Object],
_readableState: [Object],
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_maxListeners: 10,
_writableState: [Object],
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
onend: [Function],
destroyed: false,
bytesRead: 2496,
_bytesDispatched: 157759,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server: [Object],
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext: [Object],
_idlePrev: [Object],
_idleStart: 1406644399010,
parser: [Object],
ondata: [Function],
_paused: false,
_httpMessage: [Circular] },
_headers: { 'x-powered-by': 'Express' },
_headerNames: { 'x-powered-by': 'X-Powered-By' },
req: [Circular],
locals: {} },
route:
{ path: '/menuItems',
stack: [ [Object] ],
methods: { post: true } } }
you need to use the https://www.npmjs.org/package/body-parser module to parse the body of POST request.
app.use(express.static(__dirname));
// parse application/x-www-form-urlencoded
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }))
// parse application/json
app.use(bodyParser.json())
app.get('/menuItems', menu.getMenuItems);
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This is a pretty straight forward question, but I haven't found anything on Google. I'm looking for documentation on the request parameter in Node.js's create server function, but I haven't been able to find anything.
http.createServer(function(request, response){
console.log(JSON.stringify(request));
});
Debugging with JSON.stringify() gives me an error, that the object is circular and the program stops. I've seen different things like request.url, or request.body, but is there a page documenting all of the request functions and parameters? It seems like it should be easy to find, I just can't seem to find it.
I tried it again, and it turns out just doing console.log(request) writes out all of the data from the request. Here it is just as a reference:
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output: [],
outputEncodings: [],
writable: true,
_last: false,
chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: false,
_hangupClose: false,
socket: [Circular],
connection: [Circular] } },
connection:
{ _connecting: false,
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{ fd: null,
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owner: [Circular],
onread: [Function: onread],
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decoder: null,
encoding: null },
readable: true,
domain: null,
_events:
{ end: [Object],
finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
_socketEnd: [Function: onSocketEnd],
drain: [Function: ondrain],
timeout: [Function],
error: [Function],
close: [Object] },
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_writableState:
{ highWaterMark: 16384,
objectMode: false,
needDrain: false,
ending: false,
ended: false,
finished: false,
decodeStrings: false,
defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
length: 0,
writing: false,
sync: true,
bufferProcessing: false,
onwrite: [Function],
writecb: null,
writelen: 0,
buffer: [] },
writable: true,
allowHalfOpen: true,
onend: [Function],
destroyed: false,
errorEmitted: false,
bytesRead: 357,
_bytesDispatched: 0,
_pendingData: null,
_pendingEncoding: '',
server:
{ domain: null,
_events: [Object],
_maxListeners: 10,
_connections: 1,
connections: [Getter/Setter],
_handle: [Object],
_usingSlaves: false,
_slaves: [],
allowHalfOpen: true,
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
_connectionKey: '4:0.0.0.0:1337' },
_idleTimeout: 120000,
_idleNext:
{ _idleNext: [Circular],
_idlePrev: [Circular],
msecs: 120000,
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{ _idleNext: [Circular],
_idlePrev: [Circular],
msecs: 120000,
ontimeout: [Function: listOnTimeout] },
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{ _headers: [],
_url: '',
onHeaders: [Function: parserOnHeaders],
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onBody: [Function: parserOnBody],
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socket: [Circular],
incoming: [Circular],
maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
onIncoming: [Function] },
ondata: [Function],
_httpMessage:
{ domain: null,
_events: [Object],
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output: [],
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writable: true,
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chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
_hasBody: true,
_trailer: '',
finished: false,
_hangupClose: false,
socket: [Circular],
connection: [Circular] } },
httpVersion: '1.1',
complete: false,
headers:
{ host: 'localhost:1337',
connection: 'keep-alive',
'cache-control': 'max-age=0',
accept: 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.116 Safari/537.36',
'accept-encoding': 'gzip,deflate,sdch',
'accept-language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8,ja;q=0.6' },
trailers: {},
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{ _connecting: false,
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{ fd: null,
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owner: [Circular],
onread: [Function: onread],
reading: true },
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{ highWaterMark: 16384,
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reading: true,
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finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
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server:
{ domain: null,
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connections: [Getter/Setter],
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httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
timeout: 120000,
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{ _idleNext: [Circular],
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msecs: 120000,
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{ _idleNext: [Circular],
_idlePrev: [Circular],
msecs: 120000,
ontimeout: [Function: listOnTimeout] },
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parser:
{ _headers: [],
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onBody: [Function: parserOnBody],
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socket: [Circular],
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maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
onIncoming: [Function] },
ondata: [Function],
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{ domain: null,
_events: [Object],
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output: [],
outputEncodings: [],
writable: true,
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chunkedEncoding: false,
shouldKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
sendDate: true,
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finished: false,
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socket: [Circular],
connection: [Circular] } },
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upgrade: false }
I'm not sure if this is a correct reply as it seems straightforward to me, but did you have a look at
http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_incomingmessage?
Request is instance of the above object. By the way, if you really want to see what's inside that object with "brute force," you should not parse it, as it will not be a JSON string at all, but instead do something like:
for (i in request) {
//Your code here
}
Hope it helps.
Just to add on, as a relative newbie in Node.js, I find it confusing that each framework has its own implementation of a "request" object.
For example,
Express: http://expressjs.com/api.html#req.param
and
Hapi: http://spumko.github.io/resource/api/#request-object (just to note that the raw request object is still available in request.raw.req)
Some libraries assume the presence of Express' "req.param" method, and fail when used in non-Express projects.
I agree with Delio, the Request object is of type IncomingMessage object, which is created by http.ClientRequest.