Express endpoint not matched when passing query params

Asked May 17 '21 at 15:03

Active May 17 '21 at 17:07

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I have a very simple express API:

const express = require('express')
const app = express()
const port = 3000

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send('in root!')
})

app.get('/hello', (req, res) => {
  res.send('in hello! req.query.id is ' + req.query.id)
})

app.listen(port, () => {
  console.log(`Example app listening at http://localhost:${port}`)
})

Hitting it with CURLs:

curl http://localhost:3000/hello

Result is:

in hello! req.query.id is undefined

Which is correct. Now I run:

curl http://localhost:3000/hello?id=123

Hey presto, I get:

no matches found: http://localhost:3000/hello?id=123

According to the answer here it really should be as simple as adding "?id=123" to the URL, but somehow I've made a mistake somewhere because now the endpoint is not matched...

Im using express v4.17.1

EDIT Can ANYONE else reproduce this problem?

edited May 17 '21 at 17:07

asked May 17 '21 at 15:03

Mark

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Is that your full code? Where is the part that listens to incoming connections on port 3000? – slebetman May 17 '21 at 16:19
just updated with full code – Mark May 17 '21 at 16:24
In my opinion, the problem must be somewhere else. Your code is pretty much simple standard code and should definitely work – devnull69 May 17 '21 at 17:09
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Please try `curl -X GET "http://localhost:3000/hello?id=123"` because maybe some characters have special meaning in your shell – devnull69 May 17 '21 at 17:13
In the end I had to downgrade to 3.* version – Mark May 17 '21 at 20:07

Express endpoint not matched when passing query params

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