Need some help solving this extra backslash issue in my API.
I have an API built in Node running on the Apigee public server.
The data I send for javascript looks like perfect JSON, but when it shows up in Node
it has all these extra backslashes.
I have tried setting the ajax.setRequestHeader to different versions
but only the “application/x-www-form-urlencoded” allowed the data to reach Node.
//ajax.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json;charset=UTF-8");
//ajax.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json')
//ajax.setRequestHeader("Content-type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
//ajax.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json; charset=utf-8");
ajax.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=ISO-8859-1');
Why is this happening and what can I do to fix it?
====== sample code ======
function postNewPartner(createUserObj) {
var ajax = new XMLHttpRequest();
var tempJSON = JSON.stringify(createUserObj);
ajax.open('POST', ( 'http://myurl/csa-api/postNewUser'));
ajax.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=ISO-8859-1');
ajax.send(tempJSON);
ajax.onreadystatechange=function(){
// do stuff here
}
}
};
Data that is sent from javascript
tempJSON = {“usertype":"admin","username":"bobsmith","name”:”bob”}”
Data received in Node.js (Express)
req.body JSONString = {"{\"usertype\":\"admin\",\"username\”:\”bobsmith\”,\”name\”:\”bob\”}":""}
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