I have the following iron-ajax element in my html:
<iron-ajax
id="write-tweets"
body='[{"statuses": "{{tweets}}"}]'
url="/fscall"
handle-as="json">
</iron-ajax>
And I have this in the js file for the above html:
Polymer({
is: "sample-app",
properties: {
tweets: {
type: Object,
value: [],
},
},
handleResponse(e){
console.log("_________Twitter responses aquired:_________");
this.tweets = this.tweets.concat(e.detail.response.statuses);
this.writeTweets();
},
At this point, tweets is an array of JSON objects:
Now I'm trying to send this back to the node.js server so I can write/save it to a file.
writeTweets(){
let ajax = this.root.querySelector('#write-tweets');
ajax.generateRequest();
}
... //some unrelated code
I have the following in app.js:
app.get('/fscall', (req, res) => {
fs.writeFile("tweets.json", JSON.parse(req.body, null, 4), function(err) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
}
});
});
And here I'm running into errors, I have no idea how to access the JSON that I sent, req.body seems to be empty. Same happens if I try to wrap tweets in a getter (e.g. doing {returnTweets(){ return this.tweets;}, and body='[{"statuses": "{{returnTweets()}}"}]'.
Can anyone advise on how I could pass the JSON and print it?
UPDATE
OK so I'm managing to bind the tweets to the body of the request by doing
<iron-ajax
method="POST"
id="write-tweets"
body$='{"statuses": {{tweetsParsed}}}'
url="/fscall"
handle-as="json">
</iron-ajax>
Where tweetsParsed is a property that contains the JSON.stringifyed tweets. Now if I check the ajax request, it contains the tweets in the body:
HOWEVER, I'm still not getting anything on the server side, and console. logging request.body returns {}... Any idea why this is happening?
