Cannot read property 'Symbol(KEY)' when body is null or undefined

Question

Cannot read property 'Symbol(KEY)' when body is null or undefined

Startouf opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

Cyril Duchon-Doris commented 4 years ago

I have an enigmatic error when trying to receive a POST request containing several fields and some nested fields. It's most likely an error in the modelling (I will write a comment when I find out the mistake I made), but this deserves a better error message that would ideally help understand what is wrong in the model.

Backtrace

backend     | TypeError: Cannot read property 'Symbol(KEY)' of undefined
backend     |     at Function.sanitize (/app/node_modules/gstore-node/lib/model.js:377:33)
backend     |     at createEvent (/app/src/controllers/api/v1/events.controller.ts:27:28)

gstore-node 7.2.5

Cyril Duchon-Doris · Answer 1 · Sat Jun 27 2020 19:01:21 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

EDIT : I had made again the noob mistake of forgetting to add the bodyparser.json() middleware to my express stack. Adding an error message when the body received is null could help those devs who are floating off in their own thoughts like me.