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textParser returns an object when body is empty #44
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Yes. The reason is historical that |
I'd think that in the case of |
Yeah, definitely should be an empty string in that case! I'd expect undef if there was no body. |
Right. I'm not disagreeing, but I was just saying the reason it's set to |
Anyway, if you post a body that is plain text and the body is empty (so |
The test https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser/blob/1.7.0/test/text.js#L33-L42 shows that the empty body comes through as |
Verified the behavior is a bug within |
thanks for the help! |
See https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser/blob/master/lib/types/text.js#L51
Would expect it to read
req.body = req.body || ''
instead ofreq.body = req.body || {}
With this line, req.body will return an object when no body is provided
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