urlencoded not passing body to next middleware, but do to final controller

Hi, I’ve encountered some weird behavior from the URL encoded parser… it seems that the body is not passed to my next middleware, but It’s passed to the final controller.

in example sending the following data:

name='test'

to this route:

// test.ctrl.ts
export const myController = (req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) => {
  console.log(req.body) // prints { name: 'test' }
}

// routes.ts
router.post('/', bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }), (req, res, next) => {
  console.log(req.body) //prints {}
  next()
}, myController);

note that in the middleware, it prints an empty object, and in the controller, I get the body correctly…

I do not completely understand why and how this is possible… any suggestions?

[UlisesGascon]

Glad to hear that @marik22312! Thanks for provide the details and close the issue 👍

[marik22312]

@UlisesGascon hey, yes! The issue was between the seat and the screen… I had a multer Middleware which also parsed the body… So naturally, body parser couldn’t get the body from a formData request…

Closing the issue…