Hi Lance,

Thanks for your detailed feedback.

>What exactly should r.variables and r.rawVariables contain?  ...

r.variables and r.rawVariables are special objects, because they are created on the fly. There is no way to get all the possible variable names from nginx. So Object.keys(r.variables) is empty list. Therefore dumping and iterating over r.variables returns nothing. But, if you have a $foo variable, r.variables.foo would return the $foo content as a string.

> That might also be a fallacy of our testing methodology since we’re using JSON.stringify to visualize the output in the browser.

The JSON.stringify() is no the best, use njs.dump(). http://nginx.org/en/docs/njs/reference.html#njs

>Is there already an NJS object or are there plans for an object that parses and maps POST key/value pairs into a JSON object?

Take a look at https://github.com/nginx/njs/issues/48#issuecomment-415745451

>Filters for the different phase of the Nginx request

We are thinking about the adding phases handlers.

>Direct variable access to the Nginx variables (either read only or writable depending on the context within which they were created)

this is already in place

>Array like access to the request arguments (e.g. cookies, post args, query string args, etc).  Right now the only version of this that we’ve found reliably working in the js_content phase is query string related stuff (in the args array)

Feel free to add a feature request here https://github.com/nginx/njs
Although this is not a feature requested often (for some reason).
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