inserting in mongo using express - mongodb

Question

i am trying to put data in the mongodb using express but it is storing blank always ...also it is not printing any console logs :
the url i am hitting after starting the sever is
http://localhost:3000/posts?title=test&link=http://test.com
and it is showing the below output:
{"__v":0,"_id":"562717b064002b1c2e697b33","comments":[],"upvotes":0}
router.get('/posts', function(req, res, next) {
console.log('reached ere '+req);
var post = new Post(req.body);
post.save(function(err, post){
if(err){ return next(err); }
res.json(post);
});
});
Post Scheme:
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var PostSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
title: String,
link: String,
upvotes: {type: Number, default: 0},
comments: [{ type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'Comment' }]
});
mongoose.model('Post', PostSchema);

Answer 1

You are calling your API as
http://localhost:3000/posts?title=test&link=http://test.com
which will send title and link to server as query parameters and not body parameters. So your req.body in this case would be an empty object. That is the reason no data in being saved in your posts collection.
You have two options here:
Change your API to save req.query in posts collection which you can do as follows:
Replace
var post = new Post(req.body);
with
var post = new Post(req.query);
Pass link and title as body parameters instead of query parameters.