FormData returns an empty object?
Answered
Samoyed posted this in #help-forum
SamoyedOP
So i have a form with one field (email) that runs one of my route handlers at
This returns an empty json object like this
even though in my console, im pretty sure the form data is logged correctly but i cant really parse what it is, whats the Symbol(state) thing?
So, I literally just need to extract that email from there so i can use for auth stuff. Thats all. Please help, its been hours.
auth/signin when submitted. I read the docs on form data and have just this in my route.js rnimport { NextResponse } from "next/server";
export async function POST(request) {
const formData = await request.formData()
console.log(formData)
return NextResponse.json({formData})
}This returns an empty json object like this
{
formData : { }
}even though in my console, im pretty sure the form data is logged correctly but i cant really parse what it is, whats the Symbol(state) thing?
FormData {
[Symbol(state)]: [ { name: 'email', value: 'myemail@gmail.com' } ]
}So, I literally just need to extract that email from there so i can use for auth stuff. Thats all. Please help, its been hours.
Answered by joulev
formData is not a JSON object. Try const name = formData.get("name")8 Replies
@joulev `formData` is not a JSON object. Try `const name = formData.get("name")`
SamoyedOP
Wow, thank you. Id like to point out tho that this was right from the nextjs docs so I just assumed they knew what they were doing
I also wasnt familiar with FormData as a type so ig i need to check out its methods
@Samoyed Click to see attachment
Oh… they certainly made a mistake here. Could you file a documentation bug report?
@joulev Oh… they certainly made a mistake here. Could you file a documentation bug report?
SamoyedOP
Cant say ive done that before, ill look into it
Um. Otherwise tomorrow I’ll file an issue for you, this is definitely wrong
I opened a PR to fix this https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/52532