I am just trying to write a simple node.js app that will be able to write to a file via post and access that file with the express.static().
var express = require('express'),
fs = require('fs')
url = require('url');
var app = express();
app.configure(function(){
app.use('/public', express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
app.use(express.bodyParser());
});
app.post('/receieve', function(request, respond) {
filePath = __dirname + '/public/data.txt';
fs.appendFile(filePath, request.body)
});
app.listen(1110);
I'm using postman chrome extension to test if my post is working correctly, but I'm receiving 'cannot POST /receive' when I try to send raw json. Any ideas of what the problem could be? Thank you!
As go-oleg mentioned, there's a mismatch between the server-side route and the client-side request:
'/receive' !== '/receieve' // extra `e` in the route
You may also want to specify a format when appending request.body
. Object#toString
, which appendFile()
will use, simply generates "[object Object]"
.
fs.appendFile(filePath, JSON.stringify(request.body));
And, you should .end()
the response
at some point:
fs.appendFile(filePath, JSON.stringify(request.body));
response.end();
fs.appendFile(filePath, JSON.stringify(request.body), function () {
response.end();
});
You can also use .send()
if you want to include a message in the response
. It'll call .end()
.