not able to do x-www-unencoded body

[boxxxie]

tested an API with postman, and tried to emulate the successful call i could make with it.
set headers to {"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"}
set body to [string that worked with postman in x-www... mode]
this is on https mode as well.

i can't get this type of request to work.

switched to request-promise lib and my request works fine using the {form: } option

[boxxxie]

maybe i jumped the gun on this.
after looking at request-promise headers, i see that they added a content-length header.
i guess i was missing that, however it would be very nice if this was handled by q-http

[arikon]

You could use such a http app:

var q = require('q'),
    qs = require('qs'),
    apps = require('q-ui/http-apps');

function HandleUrlEncodedRequests(app) {
    return function(req, res) {
        return processUrlEncodedBody(req)
            .catch(function(err) {
                // TODO: should be 500 in case of syntax or any other error in processUrlEncodedBody() code
                return statusResponse(req, 400, err.stack || err);
            })
            .then(function(req) {
                return app(req, res);
            });
    }
}

function processUrlEncodedBody(obj) {
    return q(obj)
        .then(function(obj) {
            var contentType = obj.headers['content-type'];
            if (contentType && contentType.indexOf('x-www-form-urlencoded') > -1) {
                return obj.body.read()
                    .then(function(body) {
                        obj.data = qs.parse(body.toString());
                        return obj;
                    });
            }
            return obj;
        });
}

function statusResponse(req, status, addendum) {
    return q.reject(apps.responseForStatus(req, status, req.method + ' ' + req.path + (addendum ? '\n' + addendum : '')));
}

[boxxxie]

@arikon wow. thanks for your comment.
i think that's a lot of code for the tiny task i want to do (send a valid x-www-unencoded request via https).
i don't think i fully understand what an http-app is. i though that was used to build servers (express-like).

[arikon]

i though that was used to build servers

@boxxxie It is.

The docs for the HTTP Apps. It is quite a powerful and convenient concept.
But I agree that HandleUrlEncodedRequests app could be in i-io/http-apps by default.

[Stuk]

This does indeed seem like a reasonable app to be included.