I'm making a chat bot where people get coins each 30 minutes, they can then spend those coins. When they spend those coins they need to be deducted, so I need to catch their command in my front-end and deduct the coins from their profile in my back-end.
This is a case of my switch case in which I catch the command that's being utilised
case `!gayOverlay`:
const requiredKluiten = 50;
fetch(`/api/users/${userstate.username}`) // fetch from Express.js server
.then(response => response.json())
.then(result => {
if (result.instakluiten >= requiredKluiten) {
client.action(channel, `${userstate[`display-name`]}, you've got enough instakluiten for this.`);
const method = `PATCH`;
const payload = {requiredKluiten};
const body = JSON.stringify(payload);
const headers = `Content-Type: application/json`;
return fetch(`/api/users/${userstate.username}`, {method, body, headers})
.then(r => console.log(`Result is `, d));
}else{
client.action(channel, `${userstate[`display-name`]}, you don't have enough instakluiten for this, you need ${requiredKluiten - result.instakluiten} more.`);
}
});
break;
I'm using PATCH to update my viewers' coins (I read Please do not patch like an idiot, but people in the comments were also against the method, so I'm not sure what the correct way is anymore now...), when I send data with postman my req.body in my back-end is filled with the data I added. However, when I execute my function (which also should have data because of my payload), my req.body is an empty object. What am I doing wrong here?
This is what's happening on the server side
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
app.get('/api/users/:username', (req, res) => {
let username = req.params.username;
findUserInApi(username)
.then(foundUser => {
console.log(`foundUser is ${foundUser}`);
if (!foundUser) {
res.status(403).send('User not found in api yet');
}else{
res.json(foundUser);
}
});
});
Update
This is what's being returned in the then after my patch (changed it to PUT after the comment of Alex) https://puu.sh/shO57/362b639545.png
Update
Even when trying it like this (because of this post) it makes no difference
const data = JSON.stringify(payload);
const body = new FormData();
body.append(`json`, data);
Update
When using postman my body is always: {'requiredKluiten': 50}.
When I remove the headers (that were automatically set to application/x-www-form-urlencoded when choosing x-www-form-urlencoded to send my data) I get an empty object with Postman. When the headers are added again with x-www-form-urlencoded it works. When I select form-data however I get as req.body:
{ '------WebKitFormBoundarySAXAR2jfhUJt39US\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name': '"requiredKluiten"\r\n\r\n50\r\n------WebKitFormBoundarySAXAR2jfhUJt39US--\r\n' }
However, when adding the headers to my code, it still doesn't work when executing my fetch... I must still be doing something wrong :/...
This is what's being executed right now, any flaws to be spotted?
case `!gayOverlay`:
const requiredKluiten = 50;
fetch(`/api/users/${userstate.username}`) // fetch from Express.js server
.then(response => response.json())
.then(result => {
if (result.instakluiten >= requiredKluiten) {
client.action(channel, `${userstate[`display-name`]}, you've got enough instakluiten for this.`);
const method = `PUT`;
const payload = {requiredKluiten};
const body = JSON.stringify(payload);
const headers = `Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded`;
return fetch(`/api/users/${userstate.username}`, {method, body, headers})
.then(d => console.log(`Result is `, d));
}else{
client.action(channel, `${userstate[`display-name`]}, you don't have enough instakluiten for this, you need ${requiredKluiten - result.instakluiten} more.`);
}
});
