req.body returns a Buffer

For some reason in some version change (apologize I don’t know from which version this started, but sometime after the switch from AWS to Vendia as the maintainer), req.body now returns a Buffer.

"body":{"type":"Buffer","data":[123,34,119,104,97,116,116,104,101,34,58,34,105,116,39,115,32,104,101,114,101,49,34,125]}}

Is this intended? This is even after using bodyParser.json() as middleware.

I have found that I can use

const { event, context } = getCurrentInvoke();
console.log(event.body)

That seems to give me a better response but takes place outside the Express environment.

I’m curious as to why req.body returns a Buffer instead of a json object.

[manuelhonoredesousa]

Hi guys, I hope this solution to be useful for you…

You can get your body data like that…

app.post(“/email”,(req, res)=>{ const jsonBodyData = req.apiGateway.event.body;
console.log(JSON.parse(jsonBodyData)); })

[rfink]

This is happening to us as well, 4.10.1