Using body-parser in express route specific got empty request body

I tried to apply the the body parser into a specific router, and I always get empty request body.

the following is my code:

var express = require('express');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');

var jsonParser = bodyParser.json({ type: 'application/*+json'});
var router = express.Router();

router.post('/', jsonParser, function(req, res) {
  if(!req.body || req.body.length === 0) {
    console.log('request body not found');
    return res.sendStatus(400);
  }
  var user = req.body;
  console.log('request body : ' + JSON.stringify(user));
  });
});

module.exports = router;

The same request was tried with the express app with both generic and express route specific as in the example here https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser#examples and it works fine.

[dougwilson]

Right, but you see, you are sending the header Content-Type: application/json, but in your code above, you are setting type: 'application/*+json'. application/json does not match application/*+json, which is why nothing is happening. You want to just remove the type option all together unless there is a specific reason you have that there.

[dougwilson]

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