Hello, I am new to Node and so far having a blast. I'm writing a simple API
but am having trouble getting data from the json payload in the body to
create a new customer. Any help would be appreciated.
*Sample Payload passed in using curl (createCustomer.json):*
{
"firstName": "Mike",
"lastName": "Ditka",
"email": "[email protected]",
"username": "mikeditka",
"password": "password",
"address": {
"street": "85 Bears Ave.",
"city": "Chicago",
"state": "IL",
"zip": 12345
}
}
*using*: curl -is -X POST -d "@createCustomer.json"
http://localhost:3000/customers
*customer schema:*
var customerSchema = new Schema({
firstName : String, //{ type: String, required: true, trim: true
},
lastName : String, //{ type: String, required: true, trim: true },
username : String, //{ type: String, required: true, trim: true
},
password : String, //{ type: String, required: true, trim: true
},
email : String, //{ type: String, required: true, trim: true },
phone : String,
image : String,
created : {type: Date, default: Date.now},
address: {
street : String,
city : String,
state : String,
zip : Number
}
});
*customers.js*
exports.customer = function(req, res) {
console.log(req.body);
var customer = new Customer({
firstName: req.body.firstName,
lastName: req.body.lastName,
username: req.body.username,
password: req.body.password,
email: req.body.email
/*customer.phone = req.body.phone;
customer.image = req.body.image;
customer.address.street = req.body.street;
customer.address.city = req.body.city;
customer.address.state = req.body.state;
customer.address.zip = req.body.zip;*/
});
customer.save(function (err) {
if (!err) {
return console.log("created");
} else {
return console.log(err);
}
});
return res.send(customer);
}
*server.js*
// require restify and bodyParser to read Backbone.js syncs
var restify = require('restify');
var server = restify.createServer();
server.use(restify.acceptParser(server.acceptable));
server.use(restify.queryParser());
server.use(restify.bodyParser());
server.pre(function(req, res, next) {
req.headers.accept = 'application/json';
return next();
});
// Set up our routes and start the server
server.get('/customers', customers.list);
server.post('/customers', customers.customer);
Can anyone make sense of what I posted to understand why when I POST using
that curl command, it creates a new document, but it only contains the ids
created by MongoDB - no customer data?
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