Meteor iron:router prepare request.body when JSON - json

Question

Currently I play around with iron:router's solution for a restful API. For this I use the .put, .get ... methods which are iron:router has implemented.
This is my example I work with:
Router.route('/api', {where:'server'})
.put(function(){
var req;
req = this.request;
console.log(req.body);
this.response.end('PUT finished.');
});
When I execute the following I will get the expected response (PUT finished):
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:4000/api " -d'{"name": "timo"}'
But the console.log(req.body) returns a strange value converted to an object.
The returned value is:
{
'{"name": "timo"}\n' : ''
}
It seems that iron:router trys to convert the body into an object but did not recognized that the given request string is a valid JSON string.
Is there smth I did wrong ? I did not find anything helpful yet to prepare iron:router that the given request body is still JSON.
Maybe its a better solution not to tell iron:router that the given request is a JSON and instead to tell iron:router that it shouldn't do anything so I can convert the JSON string by myself ?

Answer 1

You didn't specify the content type in your curl request. Try this instead:
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:4000/api " -d'{"name": "timo"}' -H "content-type: application/json"
With that it works for me:
I20150522-09:59:08.527(-7)? Request { name: 'timo' }
(and without it doesn't).