get-body v1.0.3

Get Body

General HTTP request body parser.

Looking for a multipart body parser? Try busboy.

Installation

npm install get-body --save

Usage

import { parse, json, text, form } from 'get-body'
import { createServer } from 'http'

createServer(function (req) {
  parse(req, req.headers).then(body => console.log(body))
})

Arguments

1. stream: Readable An instance of the request stream
2. headers: object The raw headers object as a lower-cased map
3. options: object Parser configuration

Options

• limit Controls the maximum request body size (default: 100kb).
• decoders Map of known content-encoding decoders (default: exports.decoders)
• jsonParse Custom behaviour for JSON parsing (default: strict JSON.parse check)
• formParse Custom behaviour for form parsing (default: querystring.parse)
• jsonTypes Array of media types to parse as JSON
• formTypes Array of media types to parse as a form
• textTypes Array of media types to parse as text

TypeScript

This project is written using TypeScript and publishes the definitions directly to NPM.

License

Apache 2.0