Allow reading request bodies in middlewares

packages/next/server/next-server.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import type { ParsedNextUrl } from '../shared/lib/router/utils/parse-next-url'
 import type { PrerenderManifest } from '../build'
 import type { Rewrite } from '../lib/load-custom-routes'
 import type { BaseNextRequest, BaseNextResponse } from './base-http'
+import type { ReadableStream } from 'next/dist/compiled/web-streams-polyfill/ponyfill'
+import { TransformStream } from 'next/dist/compiled/web-streams-polyfill/ponyfill'
 
 import { execOnce } from '../shared/lib/utils'
 import {
@@ -1239,6 +1241,11 @@ export default class NextNodeServer extends BaseServer {
 
     const allHeaders = new Headers()
     let result: FetchEventResult | null = null
+    const method = (params.request.method || 'GET').toUpperCase()
+    let originalBody =
+      method !== 'GET' && method !== 'HEAD'
+        ? teeableStream(requestToBodyStream(params.request.body))
+        : undefined
 
     for (const middleware of this.middleware || []) {
       if (middleware.match(params.parsedUrl.pathname)) {
@@ -1248,6 +1255,7 @@ export default class NextNodeServer extends BaseServer {
         }
 
         await this.ensureMiddleware(middleware.page, middleware.ssr)
+        const currentBody = originalBody?.duplicate()
 
         const middlewareInfo = this.getMiddlewareInfo(middleware.page)
 
@@ -1257,14 +1265,15 @@ export default class NextNodeServer extends BaseServer {
           env: middlewareInfo.env,
           request: {
             headers: params.request.headers,
-            method: params.request.method || 'GET',
+            method,
             nextConfig: {
               basePath: this.nextConfig.basePath,
               i18n: this.nextConfig.i18n,
               trailingSlash: this.nextConfig.trailingSlash,
             },
             url: url,
             page: page,
+            body: currentBody,
           },
           useCache: !this.nextConfig.experimental.runtime,
           onWarning: (warning: Error) => {
@@ -1337,3 +1346,36 @@ export default class NextNodeServer extends BaseServer {
     }
   }
 }
+
+/**
+ * Creates a ReadableStream from a Node.js HTTP request
+ */
+function requestToBodyStream(
+  request: IncomingMessage
+): ReadableStream<Uint8Array> {
+  const transform = new TransformStream<Uint8Array, Uint8Array>({
+    start(controller) {
+      request.on('data', (chunk) => controller.enqueue(chunk))
+      request.on('end', () => controller.terminate())
+      request.on('error', (err) => controller.error(err))
+    },
+  })
+
+  return transform.readable
+}
+
+/**
+ * A simple utility to take an original stream and have
+ * an API to duplicate it without closing it or mutate any variables
+ */
+function teeableStream<T>(originalStream: ReadableStream<T>): {
+  duplicate(): ReadableStream<T>
+} {
+  return {
+    duplicate() {
+      const [stream1, stream2] = originalStream.tee()
+      originalStream = stream1
+      return stream2
+    },
+  }
+}

packages/next/server/web/adapter.ts

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ export async function adapter(params: {
     page: params.page,
     input: params.request.url,
     init: {
+      body: params.request.body as unknown as ReadableStream<Uint8Array>,
       geo: params.request.geo,
       headers: fromNodeHeaders(params.request.headers),
       ip: params.request.ip,

packages/next/server/web/types.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import type { I18NConfig } from '../config-shared'
+import type { ReadableStream } from 'next/dist/compiled/web-streams-polyfill/ponyfill'
 import type { NextRequest } from '../web/spec-extension/request'
 import type { NextFetchEvent } from '../web/spec-extension/fetch-event'
 import type { NextResponse } from './spec-extension/response'
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ export interface RequestData {
     params?: { [key: string]: string }
   }
   url: string
+  body?: ReadableStream<Uint8Array>
 }
 
 export interface FetchEventResult {

packages/next/types/misc.d.ts

@@ -331,6 +331,11 @@ declare module 'next/dist/compiled/comment-json' {
   export = m
 }
 
+declare module 'next/dist/compiled/web-streams-polyfill/ponyfill' {
+  import m from 'web-streams-polyfill/ponyfill'
+  export = m
+}
+
 declare module 'pnp-webpack-plugin' {
   import webpack from 'webpack4'
 

test/production/reading-request-body-in-middleware/index.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+import { createNext } from 'e2e-utils'
+import { NextInstance } from 'test/lib/next-modes/base'
+import { fetchViaHTTP } from 'next-test-utils'
+
+describe('reading request body in middleware', () => {
+  let next: NextInstance
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    next = await createNext({
+      files: {
+        'src/readBody.js': `
+          export async function readBody(reader, input = reader.read(), body = "") {
+            const { value, done } = await input;
+            const inputText = new TextDecoder().decode(value);
+            body += inputText;
+            if (done) {
+              return body;
+            }
+            const next = await reader.read();
+            return readBody(reader, next, body);
+          }
+        `,
+
+        'pages/_middleware.js': `
+          const { NextResponse } = require('next/server');
+          import { readBody } from '../src/readBody';
+
+          export default async function middleware(request) {
+            if (!request.body) {
+              return new Response('No body', { status: 400 });
+            }
+
+            const reader = await request.body.getReader();
+            const body = await readBody(reader);
+            const json = JSON.parse(body);
+
+            if (request.nextUrl.searchParams.has("next")) {
+              return NextResponse.next();
+            }
+
+            return new Response(JSON.stringify({
+              root: true,
+              ...json,
+            }), {
+              status: 200,
+              headers: {
+                'content-type': 'application/json',
+              },
+            })
+          }
+        `,
+
+        'pages/nested/_middleware.js': `
+          const { NextResponse } = require('next/server');
+          import { readBody } from '../../src/readBody';
+
+          export default async function middleware(request) {
+            if (!request.body) {
+              return new Response('No body', { status: 400 });
+            }
+
+            const reader = await request.body.getReader();
+            const body = await readBody(reader);
+            const json = JSON.parse(body);
+
+            return new Response(JSON.stringify({
+              root: false,
+              ...json,
+            }), {
+              status: 200,
+              headers: {
+                'content-type': 'application/json',
+              },
+            })
+          }
+        `,
+      },
+      dependencies: {},
+    })
+  })
+  afterAll(() => next.destroy())
+
+  it('rejects with 400 for get requests', async () => {
+    const response = await fetchViaHTTP(next.url, '/')
+    expect(response.status).toEqual(400)
+  })
+
+  it('returns root: true for root calls', async () => {
+    const response = await fetchViaHTTP(
+      next.url,
+      '/',
+      {},
+      {
+        method: 'POST',
+        body: JSON.stringify({
+          foo: 'bar',
+        }),
+      }
+    )
+    expect(response.status).toEqual(200)
+    expect(await response.json()).toEqual({
+      foo: 'bar',
+      root: true,
+    })
+  })
+
+  it('reads the same body on both middlewares', async () => {
+    const response = await fetchViaHTTP(
+      next.url,
+      '/nested/hello',
+      {
+        next: '1',
+      },
+      {
+        method: 'POST',
+        body: JSON.stringify({
+          foo: 'bar',
+        }),
+      }
+    )
+    expect(response.status).toEqual(200)
+    expect(await response.json()).toEqual({
+      foo: 'bar',
+      root: false,
+    })
+  })
+})

yarn.lock

@@ -20812,8 +20812,7 @@ [email protected]:
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     source-map "~0.6.1"
 
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