koa-better-body

Full-featured koa body parser! Support parsing text, buffer, json, json patch, json api, csp-report, multipart, form and urlencoded bodies. Works for koa@1, koa@2 and will work for koa@3.

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Upcoming New Release!

Hey there! We are thinking for v4 release soon (#90), so any feedback is welcome!

Install

npm i koa-better-body --save

Features

• Work for koa@1 and koa@2 (with deprecation messages), will also work in koa@3 with koa-convert
• Totally flexible through options and absolutely lightweight using lazy-cache
• Accept few JSON types
• Accept JSON Patch [RFC6902] (koajs/bodyparser#8)
• Accept JSON API v1 (koajs/bodyparser#7)
• Accept JSON csp-report (#3)
• Accept text and buffer bodies
• Accept urlencoded and forms bodies
• Accept multipart form data files and fields
• Can parse correctly array data from forms - e.g. multiple fields to have same name - dlau/koa-body#15
• Can parse correctly forms that accept multiple files - see #26 and dlau/koa-body#15
• Strict mode by default - see why on IETF Message Semantics: Section 6.1
• Custom JSON request detect function - koajs/bodyparser#f6a5ff
• Custom error handling function - koajs/bodyparser#19418129
• Extending types of request that your app can accept - koajs/bodyparser#ba7479b
• Using awesome formidable package - „battle-tested against hundreds of GB of file uploads“
• Passing a custom formidable.IncomingForm instance, allowing awesome customization
• Passing all options to formidable.IncomingForm, allowing awesome control

Usage

For more use-cases see the tests

const koaBetterBody = require('koa-better-body')

Working with koa-router and koa-better-router

'use strict'

var app = require('koa')()
var body = require('koa-better-body')
var router = require('koa-better-router')().loadMethods()

router.post('/upload', body(), function * (next) {
  console.log(this.request.files)
  console.log(this.request.fields)

  // there's no `.body` when `multipart`,
  // `urlencoded` or `json` request
  console.log(this.request.body)

  // print it to the API requester
  this.body = JSON.stringify({
    fields: this.request.fields,
    files: this.request.files,
    body: this.request.body, null
  }, null, 2)

  yield next
})

app.use(router.middleware())
app.listen(4292)

var format = require('util').format
var host = 'http://localhost:4292'
var cmd = 'curl -i %s/upload -F "source=@%s/.editorconfig"'

console.log('Try it out with below CURL for `koa-better-body` repository.')
console.log(format(cmd, host, __dirname))

koaBetterBody

Robust body parser for koa@1, also works for koa@2 (with deprecations). Will also work for future koa@3 with koa-convert.

Params

• options {Object}: see more on options section
• returns {GeneratorFunction}

Example

var koa = require('koa')
var body = require('koa-better-body')
var app = koa()

app
  .use(body())
  .use(function * () {
    console.log(this.request.body)    // if buffer or text
    console.log(this.request.files)   // if multipart or urlencoded
    console.log(this.request.fields)  // if json
  })
  .listen(8080, function () {
    console.log('koa server start listening on port 8080')
  })

Options

Sane defaults. :sparkles:

Accepts JSON, JSON API v1, text, buffer, csp-report, multipart and urlencoded/form bodies. If you want to disallow accepting and parsing multipart body you should pass multipart: false. Most of the defaults you can see at utils.defaultOptions and utils.defaultTypes. All options are also been passed to formidable.IncomingForm! Even you can pass IncomingForm instance to be able to handle the different formidable events.

• fields {Boolean, String}: Default false, which means it will set fields on this.request.fields. If you pass a string, for example 'foo', you will have fields on this.request.foo.
• files {Boolean, String}: Default false, which means it will set files on this.request.files. If you pass a string, for example 'bar', you will have files on this.request.bar.
• multipart {Boolean}: Default true. If you pass false it won't accept/parse multipart bodies.
• textLimit {String}: Default '100kb'. Passed to bytes.parse method.
• formLimit {String}: Default '100kb'. Passed to bytes.parse method.
• urlencodedLimit {String}: Default '100kb'. Alias of opts.formLimit.
• jsonLimit {String}: Default '100kb'. Passed to bytes.parse method.
• bufferLimit {String}: Default '1mb'. Passed to bytes.parse method.
• jsonStrict {Boolean}: Default true. When set to true, JSON parser will only accept arrays and objects.
• detectJSON {Function}: Custom JSON request detect function - detectJSON(ctx).
• strict {Boolean}: Default true. Pass false if you want to allow parsing GET, DELETE and HEAD requests.
• onerror {Function}: Custom error handle, if throw an error, you can customize the response - onerror(err, ctx).
• extendTypes {Object}: Default accepting types can find on utils.defaultTypes function. Allowing you to extend what your app can accept. By default works for JSON, JSON API v1, multipart, text, urlencoded and csp-report.
• IncomingForm {IncomingForm}: Pass an instance of formidable.IncomingForm to be able to handle formidable events.
• handler {GeneratorFunction}: Works with options.extendTypes.custom to handle custom types of content-type - handler(ctx, options, next). More info below.
• querystring {Object}: Querystring module to be used. By default builtin querystring. More info below.
• qs {Object}: Alias of opts.querystring. All opts are also passed to qs or querystring module.
• delimiter {String}: Default is &. Delimiter of key/value pairs, passed to querystring lib
• sep {String}: alias of opts.delimiter
• buffer {Boolean}: Default false, pass true if you want to get body as buffer.

Note about options.extendTypes

ExandTypes option gives you a flexible way to handle different content-types and modify the defaults which can be found at utils.defaultTypes function. In addition you can pass combination of options.extendTypes.custom and options.handler. When the request has some of the "custom" content type, this middleware will call the handler generator function with ctx, options, next. You can see more at issue #52.

For example manually handle such content types foo/bar-x, text/quix:

const app = require('koa')()
const body = require('koa-better-body')

app.use(body({
  textLimit: '300kb'
  extendTypes: {
    custom: [
      'foo/bar-x',
      'text/quix'
    ]
  },
  handler: function * (ctx, opts) {
    // `ctx` is equal to `this` and `app`
    // `opts` is current options object
    // passed to `koa-better-body`
    ctx.body = yield this.request.text(opts.textLimit)
  }
}))
app.use(function * showBody () {
  // `this.body` is text
  console.log(this.body)
})

Note about advanced querystring parsing

Because this middleware is fully based and integrated with koa-body-parsers, by default it uses Node's built-in module for that thing querystring. So if you have some issues with forms, think to add custom querystring module like qs to options.querystring or app.querystring. Related to this is issue #45.

Example

const app = require('koa')()
const body = require('koa-better-body')

app.use(body({
  multipart: false
  querystring: require('qs')
}))

It's intentional that it's not included in the deps by default. In v2 it was also working by passing it to app.querystring, because koa-body-parsers works that way (index.js#L53).

Note about strict mode

We are trying to follow standards. :cat2:

You can pass strict:false, but see IETF HTTP/1.1 Message Semantics: Section 6.1 to understand why we stay to "strict mode" by default. GET, HEAD, and DELETE requests have no defined semantics for the request body, but this doesn't mean they may not be valid in certain use cases. Last two tests at test/options.js are showing usage on non-strict and strict mode.

Related

You might also be interested in these packages:

• formidable: A node.js module for parsing form data, especially file uploads., homepage
• ip-filter: Validates valid IPs (IPv4 and IPv6) using micromatch - glob patterns, RegExp, string or… more, homepage
• koa-body-parsers: collection of koa body parsers, homepage
• koa-bodyparser: a body parser for koa, homepage
• koa-ip-filter: Middleware for koa that filters IPs against glob patterns, RegExp, string or array of… more, homepage
• koa: Koa web app framework, homepage
• koala: Koa Framework Suite, homepage

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.
But before doing anything, please read the CONTRIBUTING.md guidelines.

Contributing Recipes

Recipes are just different use cases, written in form of README in human language. Showing some "Pro Tips" and tricks, answering common questions and so on. They look like tests, but in more readable and understandable way for humans - mostly for beginners that not reads or understand enough the README or API and tests.

• They are in form of folders in the root recipes/ folder: for example recipes/[short-meaningful-recipe-name]/.
• In recipe folder should exist README.md file: see recipes/multipart/README.md.
• The examples from the recipe README.md should also exist as separate .js files.
• Examples in recipe folder also should be working and actual.

It would be great if you follow these steps when you want to fix, update or create a recipes. :sunglasses:

• Title for recipe idea should start with [recipe]: for example[recipe] my awesome recipe
• Title for new recipe (PR) should also start with [recipe].
• Titles of Pull Requests or Issues for fixing/updating some existing recipes should start with [recipe-fix].

It will help a lot, thanks in advance! :yum:

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