Takes urlencoded form data in an express.js request object and turns it into a nested json object.
npm install urlencoded-parserjson
{
"foo": "bar",
"baz.stuff": "things"
}
`into this:
json
{
"foo": "bar",
"baz": {
"stuff": "things"
}
}
`Installation
npm install urlencoded-parser
JavaScript
// require or import body-parse
import urlencodedParser from 'urlencoded-parser'; // ES6
var urlencodedParser = require('urlencoded-parser'); // ES5app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
app.use(urlencodedParser);
`Usage
Once it's installed and hooked into express there's really nothing else to do in express.Form data being sent up must use dot notation to separate things.
HTML
``Note: It only parses up to 5 levels of nested json. Anything after that maintains it's original string representation.
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