Parsing Request Bodies
Interactive Web applications typically require some type of user input (whether that user is a human, machine, or otherwise is irrelevant). Angel features built-in support for parsing request bodies with the following content types:
application/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/jsonmultipart/form-data
All you need to do to parse a request body is call
RequestContext.parseBody. This method is idempotent, and only ever performs the body-parsing logic once, so it is recommended to call it any time you access the request body, unless you are 100% sure that it has been parsed before.You can access the body as a
Map, List, or Object, depending on your use case:app.post('/my_form', (req, res) async {
// Parse the body, if it has not already been parsed.
await req.parseBody();
// Access fields from the body, which is the most common use case.
var userId = req.bodyAsMap['user_id'] as String;
// If the user posted a List, i.e., through JSON:
var count = req.bodyAsList.length;
// To access the body, regardless of its runtime type:
var objectBody = req.bodyAsObject as SomeType;
});
In the case of
multipart/form-data, Angel will also populate the uploadedFiles field. The UploadedFile wrapper class provides mechanisms for reading content types, metadata, and accessing the contents of an uploaded file as a Stream<List<int>>:app.post('/upload', (req, res) async {
await req.parseBody();
var file = req.uploadedFiles.first;
if (file.contentType.type == 'video') {
// Write directly to a file.
await file.data.pipe(someFile.openWrite());
}
});
You can handle other content types by manually parsing the body. You can set
bodyAsObject, bodyAsMap, or bodyAsList exactly once:Future<void> unzipPlugin(Angel app) async {
app.fallback((req, res) async {
if (!req.hasParsedBody
&& req.contentType.mimeType == 'application/zip') {
var archive = await decodeZip(req.body);
var fields = <String, dynamic>{};
for (var file in archive.files) {
fields[file.path] = file.mode;
}
req.bodyAsMap = fields;
}
return true;
});
}
If the user did not provide a
content-type header when parseBody is called, a 400 Bad Request error will be thrown.Last modified 4yr ago