[SOLVED] Moralis.Cloud.httpRequest sends undefined request body

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#1

I am calling Moralis.Cloud.httpRequest in my cloud function

Moralis.Cloud.define("myCloudFunc", async (request) => {
	Moralis.Cloud.httpRequest({
		method: 'POST',
		url: 'https://f38c-49-96-33-106.jp.ngrok.io',
		body: {
			title: 'Vote for Pedro',
			body: 'If you vote for Pedro, your wildest dreams will come true'
		},
	})
});

Ngrok redirects the post call that includes a body to my local dev server whose code looks like

const app = express()

app.post('/', (req, res) => {
  console.log(req.body)
  res.send({'success': true})
})

The console output for req.body from my local server is undefined

How can I solve this?

#2

try also the second example from https://docs.moralis.io/moralis-dapp/cloud-code/httprequest#sending-a-post-request

where you set the headers

#3

Setting the headers doesn’t change. Request’s body is still undefined.

#4

can you test it with postman to see that the server works as expected?

can you also log the entire req object?

#5

Thank you very much!
It turns out I need to include
app.use(express.json())
in the server backend.

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#6

I have similar issue with “https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/price?fsym=btc&tsyms=usd”
It returns a valid result when I visit directly in the browser.

Don’t know if there’s a way to solve it since the API is an external service.

#7

This works on my end.

Moralis.Cloud.define('nobledsmarts', async (request) => {
  return Moralis.Cloud.httpRequest({
    url: 'https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/price?fsym=btc&tsyms=usd',
  }).then((httpResponse) => httpResponse.data);
});
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#8

Yeah, working now. I was initially calling the API within my code, I called it now as a function and it seems to do the trick.
Thanks :+1: