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koa-xml-body
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Parse xml request body for Koa
const koa = require('koa')
const xmlParser = require('koa-xml-body')
const app = koa()
app.use(xmlParser())
app.use(function(ctx, next) {
// the parsed body will store in this.request.body
// if nothing was parsed, body will be undefined
ctx.body = ctx.request.body
return next()
})
koa-xml-body will carefully check and set context.request.body, so it can intergate well with other body parsers such as koa-bodyparser:
// ...
const bodyParser = require('koa-bodyparser')
// ...
app.use(xmlParser())
app.use(bodyParser())
Note:
koa@2.x, use version 2.x or 3.x;koa@1.x, use koa-xml-body@1.x.utf8. If not set, the lib will retrive it from content-type(such as content-type:application/xml;charset=gb2312).1mb.content-length is found, it will be overwritten automatically.None. It means it will throws the error. You can config it to customize the response.{}. See xml2js Options for details.body (ctx.request.body).app.use(xmlParser({
limit: 128,
encoding: 'utf8', // lib will detect it from `content-type`
xmlOptions: {
explicitArray: false
},
key: 'xmlBody', // lib will check ctx.request.xmlBody & set parsed data to it.
onerror: (err, ctx) => {
console.error(err);
ctx.throw(err.status, err.message);
}
}))
FAQs
koa middleware to parse xml request body
The npm package koa-xml-body receives a total of 2,430 weekly downloads. As such, koa-xml-body popularity was classified as popular.
We found that koa-xml-body demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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