support requests containing form data

[jbailey4]

How should requests with form data be handled? Is there a way to parse form data with pretender?
Currently in the FakeRequest containing form data the request body looks like the following:

requestBody: "foo=bar&baz=someValue"

[dustinfarris]

i am curious about this as well

[crodriguez1a]

@jbailey4 I'm also running into a similar issue. Any traction on this?

[trek]

Parsing form data into language-specific objects is not handled identically across application servers. At a cursory investigation a while back there were so many small differences that it didn't seem reliable to include this in Pretender without spawning a list of Issues related to "parses X wrong" (where "wrong" means "not like the server application library I am communicating with in production").

Indeed, just for nodejs, there are several competing body parsers that all return slightly different outputs for url encoded form bodies: https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser#bodyparserurlencodedoptions, https://www.npmjs.com/package/body#readme, https://github.com/Raynos/body, https://www.npmjs.com/package/co-body#readme

I'd be happy to recommend in the README a set of HTML encoded parsers that match the parsers people are using!

[jbailey4]

@trek Agreed. I think adding some docs on this in the README and mentioning parsing request bodies should be handled according to your environment setup will be helpful.