Docs for PATCH or POST operations

alessiogr

Payload Team

9 months ago

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  generator101

  8 months ago

  Can you share an example here?

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  jakey___

  4 months ago

  Hey @alessiogr ! I'm currently not quite understanding how to get a POST request to a custom endpoint working. It seems like you figured it out here potentially?

  
  
  

  On the client I tried something like this:

  
  

  const response = await fetch(`/path/to/custom/endpoint`, {
      method: 'POST',
      headers: {
          'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      },
      body: JSON.stringify(theData),
  })

  
  
  

  and on the endpoint I have:

  
  
  

  const customEndpoint :Endpoint = {
      path: '/path/to/custom/endpoint',
      method: 'post',
      root: true,
      handler: async (req, res, next) => {
          try {
              // How do I get the post body???
              res.status(200).send({
                  message: 'Request successful',
              })
          }
          catch (err) {
              console.error(err)
              res.status(500).send({
                  message: 'Error occurred during request',
                  error: err,
              })
          }
      },
  }
  
  export default customEndpoint

  
  
  

  Still haven't figured out how to get the post body

  
  

  
  

  Looks like in my case I'm attempting to post

  application/json

  where in payload it only accepts

  application/x-www-form-urlencoded

  ?

  
  

  
  

  hm.. tried a test

  application/x-www-form-urlencoded

  post and

  req.body

  is still undefined

  
  

  
  

  feels like the typical bodyParser middleware isn't firing for custom endpoints. Perhaps this is actually different from the original post

  
  

  
  

  I made another post in case someone else runs into this :

  https://discordapp.com/channels/967097582721572934/1111352788253941862

  
  
  

  Turns out it had to do with setting

  root

  to

  true

  in the handler