Parsing posted object array, Express-CodePudding

I need to parse data with Express from form:

invoiceRouter.post('/', async (req,res) => {
  console.log(req.body);
  let invoice = new Invoice();
  invoice = req.body;
  invoice.status = 0;
  //save
  res.redirect('/invoices');
});

When I log, the array of objects is read as list of values:

{
createdDate: '2021-10-15',
invoiceRows: [ 'Title3', '2', 'Title2', '3' ]
}

But it can not read the invoiceRows as array of 2, therefore I am struggling to parse it into array for saving it. When I set the extended: false, I can see following result from req.body:

[Object: null prototype] {
  createdDate: '2021-10-15',
  'invoiceRows[0].productTitle': 'Title2',
  'invoiceRows[0].unitPrice': '2',
  'invoiceRows[1].productTitle': 'Title3',
  'invoiceRows[1].unitPrice': '2'
}

The schema I am using:

const invoiceSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    createdDate: {
        type: Date,
        required: true
    },
    status: {
      type: Number,
      required: true
    },
    invoiceRows: [{
      productTitle: String,
      unitPrice: Number
    }]
});

Question: what am I doing wrong, in order to get array of objects from req.body inside parent object?

CodePudding user response：

In your req.body you should be receiving like bellow (As per your model schema). Make your front end to send data like bellow.

 {
   createdDate: '2021-10-15',
   invoiceRows: [ { productTitle :'Title1', unitPrice : 2}, { productTitle :'Title2', unitPrice : 3} ]
}