POST with URI encoded data instead of JSON

[guoyunhe]

There are some really old back-end systems that don't support JSON API. Instead, they support encoded URI data as body.

axios supports a usage like this:

axios.post('/foobar', new URLSearchParams({
  foo: 'bar',
}));

axios will automatically set content-type header to application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8;

However, xior doesn't seem to support this. When I write:

xior.post('/foobar', new URLSearchParams({
  foo: 'bar',
}));

xior will send a request with no content-type header, and back-end will reject it.

I can fix my code by manually adding the missing header. But maybe it makes sense that xior can do this automatically for users.

[suhaotian]

Good catch! 👊👍 I will enhance it in next version.

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Currently, there is a better way to do that:

import xior from 'xior';

xior.defaults.headers['content-type'] = `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`;

xior.post('/foobar', {foo: 'bar', bar: {a: 1}}); // and support nested object encoding

[suhaotian]

Fixed in v0.5.4 🥳 now support:

xior.post('/', new URLSearchParams({foo: 'bar'}))