To all whom it may concern (I am really just trying to reach the "please add more detail" limit)
When passing data to the server as below the body is shown as empty.
Server
// POST method route
app.post('/pass', function (req, res) {
console.log("server received POST from homepage")
console.log(req.body)
res.send('POST request to the homepage')
})
Client
function ajaxJSONFunc(){
var inputData = document.getElementById('input2').value
var json = {"data":"abc"};
$.ajax({
url: "/pass",
type: "POST",
data: json
contentType: "application/json",
// dataType: "json", only use if you need to responce data to be JSON, if its not JSON an error will fire when uncommented. defaults to text
success: function(data) {
console.log("data passed back from server is:" + data)
},
error: function(err) {
console.log("an error occured")
console.log(err)
}
})
}
Works when passing like this (below), but I would prefer to send JSON data and not strings
$.ajax({
url: "/pass",
type: "POST",
data: inputData,
contentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
//dataType: "json", only use if you need to responce data to be JSON, if its not JSON an error will fire when uncommented. defaults to text
success: function(data) {
console.log("data passed back from server is:" + data)
},
error: function(err) {
console.log("an error occured")
console.log(err)
}
})