Express is not reading the request body-CodePudding

I am new in node and express. So, I was learning how to do post request. When I learned, it was alright and it was creating another document in mangodb database. Today when I tried to do the same, this problem occurred.

I tried different things like removing required part in schema. But it seems express is failing to read req.body since when I send the request without any required fields in schema, it happily accepted and filled up default fields. I don't really understand what is happening. I was parallelly doing another project which is not giving this error.

PS. I am using mongoose@5.

Code to create tour:

exports.createTour = async (req, res) => {
  try {
    const newTour = await Tour.create(req.body);
    res.status(201).json({
      status: 'success',
      data: {
        tour: newTour,
      },
    });
  } catch (err) {
    res.status(404).json({
      status: 'fail',
      message: err.message,
    });
  }
};

CodePudding user response：

If the content-type for your POST is JSON, then you need this:

app.use(express.json())

as middleware before your POST request handler. That will read the JSON body of the request, parse it and put it in req.body.