raw-body
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 module available through the npm registry. Installation is done using the npm install
command:
TypeScript
This module includes a TypeScript 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
:
API
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, an400
error code is returned.limit
- The byte limit of the body. This is the number of bytes or any string format supported by bytes, for example1000
,'500kb'
or'3mb'
. If the body ends up being larger than this limit, a413
error code is returned.encoding
- The encoding to use to decode the body into a string. By default, aBuffer
instance will be returned when no encoding is specified. Most likely, you wantutf-8
, so settingencoding
totrue
will decode asutf-8
. You can use any type of encoding supported by iconv-lite.
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, no handling is required if you send a response. 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 byteslength
andexpected
- the expected length of the streamreceived
- the received bytesencoding
- the invalid encodingstatus
andstatusCode
- the corresponding status code for the errortype
- the error type
Types
The errors from this module have a type
property which allows for the progamatic 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 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.
Examples
Simple Express example
Simple Koa example
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.
Using with TypeScript
License
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