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Read POST

Serve an HTML form, then read POST requests. Use also to read JSON or POST data from an incoming request.

export default {
async fetch(request) {
/**
* rawHtmlResponse returns HTML inputted directly
* into the worker script
* @param {string} html
*/
function rawHtmlResponse(html) {
return new Response(html, {
headers: {
"content-type": "text/html;charset=UTF-8",
},
});
}
/**
* readRequestBody reads in the incoming request body
* Use await readRequestBody(..) in an async function to get the string
* @param {Request} request the incoming request to read from
*/
async function readRequestBody(request) {
const contentType = request.headers.get("content-type");
if (contentType.includes("application/json")) {
return JSON.stringify(await request.json());
} else if (contentType.includes("application/text")) {
return request.text();
} else if (contentType.includes("text/html")) {
return request.text();
} else if (contentType.includes("form")) {
const formData = await request.formData();
const body = {};
for (const entry of formData.entries()) {
body[entry[0]] = entry[1];
}
return JSON.stringify(body);
} else {
// Perhaps some other type of data was submitted in the form
// like an image, or some other binary data.
return "a file";
}
}
const { url } = request;
if (url.includes("form")) {
return rawHtmlResponse(someForm);
}
if (request.method === "POST") {
const reqBody = await readRequestBody(request);
const retBody = `The request body sent in was ${reqBody}`;
return new Response(retBody);
} else if (request.method === "GET") {
return new Response("The request was a GET");
}
},
};