Trying to pass an object into $http request with AngularJS

Question

I have an object, like this:

$scope.user = {name: "Jim", birthday: "1/1/90", address: "123 Easy St"}

I'm making an $http call to my server and I'd like to pass this user info. I'm trying like this:

$http({
    url: '/api/coolLookup/' + userID, 
    method: "GET",
    params: {user:$scope.user}
  }).success(function(data){
      // do stuff
  });

Within my server resource (I'm using ExpressJS/Node here) I'm trying to access the user object but cannot:

exports.coolLookup = function (req, res) {
    console.log("Here's the user")
    console.log(req.params.user)
}

req.params.user returns undefined in my console. Any idea what to do here?

Do you see the json object go out on the wire in the browser's network traffic? — Foo L
– Foo L, Commented Oct 21, 2013 at 10:55

Nikos Paraskevopoulos · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-21 11:02:17Z

1

In Express you should do:

console.log(req.query.user);

(NOTE: query, not params)

This will give you a string, use JSON.parse() to convert it to an object.

answered Oct 21, 2013 at 11:02

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Ah, beauty. req.params.query correctly returns the search params so it tripped me up.