How to get body content from request in mobile service in Azure - azure

Question

I crate a mobile service and also a custom api for that in Azure. I use fiddler to send request and do some basic and simple testing.
At Azure side, I create a custom api for my mobile service. Let say the name is ExampleCustomApi. And in the code I have
exports.put = function(request, response) {
var tags = request.parameters.tags;
...
...
}
At fiddler side, I set http method to "PUT" and the url to my custom api.
Then I set a request body to { "tags": "tag1" }.
When I execute the request in fiddler, I receive 500 back. The log in Azure's mobile service says that parameters is undefined.
My question, then, is how to get the request body at the server side. I look at the document of request object, it seems to me that parameters is the one I should use, but it doesn't work.

Answer 1

request is an object in express.js library.
This is the documentation from MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/jj554218.aspx
the documentation from express.js http://expressjs.com/api.html#req.body
And I can use request.body to get the body content.

Answer 2

After many attempts we cracked getting the content from a weburl. Hope this helps :) Jsonbody would hold your page content. This is a copy where we pulled json from one of our API's
var message = "try";
var jsonBody = "";
var request = require('request');
request.get({
url: "https://superduperwebaddress.com/api/pull"},
function(error,response,body){
if(!error)
{
var mybody = JSON.parse(body);
jsonBody = mybody;
console.warn("we are here well");
}else{
console.error(error);
}
}
);