Node.js beginner- request without query strings
Problem
I'm new to node.js. A project I'm working on requires that a large array (625 items) be stored in a MySQL database as a string and I'm using Node MySQL to accomplish that.
Right now I have it so that the row is updated when a request is made to "/(column name)?(value)". Unfortunately, it didn't take long to learn that passing 625 items as a string to node isn't the most efficient way of doing things.
Do you have any suggestions for alternate methods of passing a large array as a string besides querystrings?
var http = require('http'),
mysql = require("mysql"),
url = require("url"),
express = require("express");
var connection = mysql.createConnection({
user: "root",
database: "ballot"
});
var app = express();
app.use(express.bodyParser());
app.options('/', function (request, response)
{
response.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
response.end();
});
app.get('/', function (request, response)
{
connection.query("SELECT * FROM pathfind;", function (error, rows, fields) {
for(i=0;i'+rows[i].layers+' EDIT: So now I know I need to use posts. I've rewritten the above code using express.js. Most examples that I look at online use posts with HTML forms, which is fine, but my project needs to post data via an AJAX request. Can someone show me how that data is parsed in node.js?
Solution
You can extract post data like this.
if (req.method == 'POST') {
var body = '';
req.on('data', function (chunk) {
body += chunk;
});
req.on('end', function () {
var postData = body.toString();
console.log(postData);
});
}
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