[SOLVED] Nestjs accepting also application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Nestjs accepting also application/x-www-form-urlencoded

We have a service which is calling our nestjs microservice with header Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded which seems not to be parsed as expected.

If we start also from a clean nestjs project and put this pice of code in the AppController

  @Post()
  async store(@Body() request: any) {
    console.log('request', request);
  }

If we send data to the service with curl in this way:

curl -d '{"abc": 123 }' -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' -X POST http://localhost:3000

At the end our console.log shows as that we don't have a valid json, the whole content of the body is puted in the first parameter of the request json, which is resulting in this

request { '{"abc": 123 }': '' }

As you can see the content is not parsed right to the json, the documentation is not showing a lot of the parser, but googling this should work out of the bax

Can someone help?

Solution

Either post

URL encoded data and claim it is URL encoded data or
JSON encoded data and claim it is JSON encoded data

You're posting JSON and claiming it is URL encoded, which doesn't make sense.