angularjs post request to nodejs api - angularjs

Question

I've angularjs post call (submit a login form data) to a /login nodejs API endpoint. The data received at Nodejs endpoint (in request.body) is not in json format but it has extra padding as shown below,
{ '{"email": "a#b.com", "password": "aaa"}': ''}
What is this format? How do I access 'email' and/or password from this object?
Client code,
login: function(loginData, callback) {
$http({
method: 'POST',
url: '/api/login',
data: loginData,
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www.form-urlencoded'}
}).then(function successCallback(response) {
}, function errorCallback(response) {
});
}
Server code:
app.post('/login', function(req, res) {
console.log('Email:' + req.body.email); //this gives undefined error
console.log(req.body); // shows { '{"email": "a#b.com", "password": "aaa"}': ''}
}
What am I missing? Any help is appreciated.
--Atarangp

Answer 1

By default angularjs use JSON.stringify. If you wanna use x-www-form-urlencoded, you have to specify your transform function.
// transforme obj = {attr1: val1} to "attr1=" + encodeURIComponent(val1) + "&attr2=" ...
function transformRequestToUrlEncoded(obj) {
var str = [];
for(var p in obj)
str.push(encodeURIComponent(p) + "=" + encodeURIComponent(obj[p]));
return str.join("&");
}
$http({
method: 'POST',
url: your_url,
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8'},
transformRequest: transformRequestToUrlEncoded, // specify the transforme function
data: datas
});