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JSON body parser

Parse a JSON body of an incoming HTTP request.

Installation

npm install --save @body/json

Usage

const getJsonBody = require('@body/json')

// ...

app.post('/v1/users', async (req, res, next) => {
  try {
    const body = await getJsonBody(req)

    // ...
  } catch (err) {
    return next(err)
  }
})

// ...

API

`getJsonBody(req: Request, options: Options): Promise<any>`

Parse the body of the incoming request req. Returns a promise of the parsed body.

Options

`inflate` (boolean)

When set to true, then bodies with a deflate or gzip content-encoding will be inflated before being parsed.

Defaults to false.

`strict` (boolean)

When set to true, will only accept arrays and objects; when false will accept anything JSON.parse accepts.

Defaults to true.

Usage no npm install needed!