A full-feature koa body parser middleware. Support multipart, urlencoded and json request bodies. Provides same functionality as Express's bodyParser - multer. And all that is wrapped only around co-body and formidable.

• koa-better-body

Install with npm

$ npm install koa-body

• 15 tests
• can handle three type requests
  • multipart/form-data
  • application/x-www-urlencoded
  • application/json
• option for patch to Koa or Node, or either
• file uploads
• body, fields and files limiting
• 2 dependencies only

It's very simple, because you can access the fields and files in the ctx.request.body or ctx.req.body JSON object

var app      = require('koa')(),
    koaBody   = require('koa-body');

app.use(koaBody({formidable:{uploadDir: __dirname}}));
app.use(function *(next) {
  if (this.request.method == 'POST') {
    console.log(this.request.body);
    // => POST body
    this.body = JSON.stringify(this.request.body);
  }
  yield next;
});
app.listen(3131)
console.log('curl -i http://localhost:3131/ -d "name=test"');

For a more comprehensive example, see examples/multipart.js

It's generally better to only parse the body as needed, if using a router that supports middleware composition, we can inject it only for certain routes.

var app     = require('koa')(),
    router  = require('koa-router')(),
    koaBody = require('koa-body')();

router.post('/users', koaBody,
  function *(next) {
    console.log(this.request.body);
    // => POST body
    this.body = JSON.stringify(this.request.body);
  }
);

app.use(router.routes());

app.listen(3131);
console.log('curl -i http://localhost:3131/users -d "name=test"');

Options available for koa-body. Four custom options, and others are from raw-body and formidable.

• patchNode {Boolean} Patch request body to Node's ctx.req, default false
• patchKoa {Boolean} Patch request body to Koa's ctx.request, default true
• jsonLimit {String|Integer} The byte (if integer) limit of the JSON body, default 1mb
• formLimit {String|Integer} The byte (if integer) limit of the form body, default 56kb
• textLimit {String|Integer} The byte (if integer) limit of the text body, default 56kb
• encoding {String} Sets encoding for incoming form fields, default utf-8
• multipart {Boolean} Parse multipart bodies, default false
• formidable {Object} Options to pass to the formidable multipart parser
• strict {Boolean} If enabled, don't parse GET, HEAD, DELETE requests, default true

see http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-19#section-6.3

• GET, HEAD, and DELETE requests have no defined semantics for the request body, but this doesn't mean they may not be valid in certain use cases.
• koa-body is strict by default

See node-formidable for a full list of options

• bytesExpected {Integer} The expected number of bytes in this form, default null
• maxFields {Integer} Limits the number of fields that the querystring parser will decode, default 10
• maxFieldsSize {Integer} Limits the amount of memory a field (not file) can allocate in bytes, default 2mb
• uploadDir {String} Sets the directory for placing file uploads in, default os.tmpDir()
• keepExtensions {Boolean} Files written to uploadDir will include the extensions of the original files, default true
• hash {String} If you want checksums calculated for incoming files, set this to either 'sha1' or 'md5', default false
• multiples {Boolean} Multiple file uploads or no, default true
• onFileBegin {Function} Special callback on file begin. The function is executed directly by formidable. It can be used to rename files before saving them to disk. See the docs

Note: You can patch request body to Node or Koa in same time if you want.

As usual - npm test or if you have [mocha][mocha-url] globally - mocha --harmony-generators.

$ npm test

The MIT License, 2014 Charlike Mike Reagent (@tunnckoCore) and Daryl Lau (@daryllau)