post(url, data) does not send any data

superagent allows the following syntax:

request(app).post('/url', { foo: 'bar' })

This should set the content-type to json and send the JSON data in the request body.

With supertest the above syntax results in no content-type and no body.

testcase:

  it('.post should work with data', function (done) {
    var app = express();

    app.use(express.bodyParser());

    app.post('/', function(req, res){
      res.send(req.body.name);
    });

    request(app)
    .post('/', { name: 'tobi' })
    .expect('tobi', done);
  })

Thanks.

[mikker]

Adding .type('form') fixed this for me.

[montaro]

This worked for me

import bodyParser from 'body-parser';
app.use(bodyParser.json());