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Gets the entire buffer of a stream either as a `Buffer` or a string. | |
Validates the stream's length against an expected length and maximum limit. | |
Ideal for parsing request bodies. | |
## Install | |
This is a [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/) module available through the | |
[npm registry](https://www.npmjs.com/). Installation is done using the | |
[`npm install` command](https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/installing-npm-packages-locally): | |
```sh | |
$ npm install raw-body | |
``` | |
### TypeScript | |
This module includes a [TypeScript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/) | |
declaration file to enable auto complete in compatible editors and type | |
information for TypeScript projects. This module depends on the Node.js | |
types, so install `@types/node`: | |
```sh | |
$ npm install @types/node | |
``` | |
## API | |
```js | |
var getRawBody = require('raw-body') | |
``` | |
### getRawBody(stream, [options], [callback]) | |
**Returns a promise if no callback specified and global `Promise` exists.** | |
Options: | |
- `length` - The length of the stream. | |
If the contents of the stream do not add up to this length, | |
an `400` error code is returned. | |
- `limit` - The byte limit of the body. | |
This is the number of bytes or any string format supported by | |
[bytes](https://www.npmjs.com/package/bytes), | |
for example `1000`, `'500kb'` or `'3mb'`. | |
If the body ends up being larger than this limit, | |
a `413` error code is returned. | |
- `encoding` - The encoding to use to decode the body into a string. | |
By default, a `Buffer` instance will be returned when no encoding is specified. | |
Most likely, you want `utf-8`, so setting `encoding` to `true` will decode as `utf-8`. | |
You can use any type of encoding supported by [iconv-lite](https://www.npmjs.org/package/iconv-lite#readme). | |
You can also pass a string in place of options to just specify the encoding. | |
If an error occurs, the stream will be paused, everything unpiped, | |
and you are responsible for correctly disposing the stream. | |
For HTTP requests, you may need to finish consuming the stream if | |
you want to keep the socket open for future requests. For streams | |
that use file descriptors, you should `stream.destroy()` or | |
`stream.close()` to prevent leaks. | |
## Errors | |
This module creates errors depending on the error condition during reading. | |
The error may be an error from the underlying Node.js implementation, but is | |
otherwise an error created by this module, which has the following attributes: | |
* `limit` - the limit in bytes | |
* `length` and `expected` - the expected length of the stream | |
* `received` - the received bytes | |
* `encoding` - the invalid encoding | |
* `status` and `statusCode` - the corresponding status code for the error | |
* `type` - the error type | |
### Types | |
The errors from this module have a `type` property which allows for the programmatic | |
determination of the type of error returned. | |
#### encoding.unsupported | |
This error will occur when the `encoding` option is specified, but the value does | |
not map to an encoding supported by the [iconv-lite](https://www.npmjs.org/package/iconv-lite#readme) | |
module. | |
#### entity.too.large | |
This error will occur when the `limit` option is specified, but the stream has | |
an entity that is larger. | |
#### request.aborted | |
This error will occur when the request stream is aborted by the client before | |
reading the body has finished. | |
#### request.size.invalid | |
This error will occur when the `length` option is specified, but the stream has | |
emitted more bytes. | |
#### stream.encoding.set | |
This error will occur when the given stream has an encoding set on it, making it | |
a decoded stream. The stream should not have an encoding set and is expected to | |
emit `Buffer` objects. | |
#### stream.not.readable | |
This error will occur when the given stream is not readable. | |
## Examples | |
### Simple Express example | |
```js | |
var contentType = require('content-type') | |
var express = require('express') | |
var getRawBody = require('raw-body') | |
var app = express() | |
app.use(function (req, res, next) { | |
getRawBody(req, { | |
length: req.headers['content-length'], | |
limit: '1mb', | |
encoding: contentType.parse(req).parameters.charset | |
}, function (err, string) { | |
if (err) return next(err) | |
req.text = string | |
next() | |
}) | |
}) | |
// now access req.text | |
``` | |
### Simple Koa example | |
```js | |
var contentType = require('content-type') | |
var getRawBody = require('raw-body') | |
var koa = require('koa') | |
var app = koa() | |
app.use(function * (next) { | |
this.text = yield getRawBody(this.req, { | |
length: this.req.headers['content-length'], | |
limit: '1mb', | |
encoding: contentType.parse(this.req).parameters.charset | |
}) | |
yield next | |
}) | |
// now access this.text | |
``` | |
### Using as a promise | |
To use this library as a promise, simply omit the `callback` and a promise is | |
returned, provided that a global `Promise` is defined. | |
```js | |
var getRawBody = require('raw-body') | |
var http = require('http') | |
var server = http.createServer(function (req, res) { | |
getRawBody(req) | |
.then(function (buf) { | |
res.statusCode = 200 | |
res.end(buf.length + ' bytes submitted') | |
}) | |
.catch(function (err) { | |
res.statusCode = 500 | |
res.end(err.message) | |
}) | |
}) | |
server.listen(3000) | |
``` | |
### Using with TypeScript | |
```ts | |
import * as getRawBody from 'raw-body'; | |
import * as http from 'http'; | |
const server = http.createServer((req, res) => { | |
getRawBody(req) | |
.then((buf) => { | |
res.statusCode = 200; | |
res.end(buf.length + ' bytes submitted'); | |
}) | |
.catch((err) => { | |
res.statusCode = err.statusCode; | |
res.end(err.message); | |
}); | |
}); | |
server.listen(3000); | |
``` | |
## License | |
[MIT](LICENSE) | |
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