koa-lite/docs/api/request.md
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Request

A Koa Request object is an abstraction on top of node's vanilla request object, providing additional functionality that is useful for every day HTTP server development.

API

request.header

Request header object. This is the same as the headers field on node's http.IncomingMessage.

request.header=

Set request header object.

request.headers

Request header object. Alias as request.header.

request.headers=

Set request header object. Alias as request.header=.

request.method

Request method.

request.method=

Set request method, useful for implementing middleware such as methodOverride().

request.length

Return request Content-Length as a number when present, or undefined.

request.url

Get request URL.

request.url=

Set request URL, useful for url rewrites.

request.originalUrl

Get request original URL.

request.origin

Get origin of URL, include protocol and host.

ctx.request.origin
// => http://example.com

request.href

Get full request URL, include protocol, host and url.

ctx.request.href;
// => http://example.com/foo/bar?q=1

request.path

Get request pathname.

request.path=

Set request pathname and retain query-string when present.

request.querystring

Get raw query string void of ?.

request.querystring=

Set raw query string.

Get raw query string with the ?.

request.search=

Set raw query string.

request.host

Get host (hostname:port) when present. Supports X-Forwarded-Host when app.proxy is true, otherwise Host is used.

request.hostname

Get hostname when present. Supports X-Forwarded-Host when app.proxy is true, otherwise Host is used.

If host is IPv6, Koa delegates parsing to WHATWG URL API, Note This may impact performance.

request.URL

Get WHATWG parsed URL object.

request.type

Get request Content-Type void of parameters such as "charset".

const ct = ctx.request.type;
// => "image/png"

request.charset

Get request charset when present, or undefined:

ctx.request.charset;
// => "utf-8"

request.query

Get parsed query-string, returning an empty object when no query-string is present. Note that this getter does not support nested parsing.

For example "color=blue&size=small":

{
  color: 'blue',
  size: 'small'
}

request.query=

Set query-string to the given object. Note that this setter does not support nested objects.

ctx.query = { next: '/login' };

request.fresh

Check if a request cache is "fresh", aka the contents have not changed. This method is for cache negotiation between If-None-Match / ETag, and If-Modified-Since and Last-Modified. It should be referenced after setting one or more of these response headers.

// freshness check requires status 20x or 304
ctx.status = 200;
ctx.set('ETag', '123');

// cache is ok
if (ctx.fresh) {
  ctx.status = 304;
  return;
}

// cache is stale
// fetch new data
ctx.body = await db.find('something');

request.stale

Inverse of request.fresh.

request.protocol

Return request protocol, "https" or "http". Supports X-Forwarded-Proto when app.proxy is true.

request.secure

Shorthand for ctx.protocol == "https" to check if a request was issued via TLS.

request.ip

Request remote address. Supports X-Forwarded-For when app.proxy is true.

request.ips

When X-Forwarded-For is present and app.proxy is enabled an array of these ips is returned, ordered from upstream -> downstream. When disabled an empty array is returned.

request.subdomains

Return subdomains as an array.

Subdomains are the dot-separated parts of the host before the main domain of the app. By default, the domain of the app is assumed to be the last two parts of the host. This can be changed by setting app.subdomainOffset.

For example, if the domain is "tobi.ferrets.example.com": If app.subdomainOffset is not set, ctx.subdomains is ["ferrets", "tobi"]. If app.subdomainOffset is 3, ctx.subdomains is ["tobi"].

request.is(types...)

Check if the incoming request contains the "Content-Type" header field, and it contains any of the give mime types. If there is no request body, null is returned. If there is no content type, or the match fails false is returned. Otherwise, it returns the matching content-type.

// With Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
ctx.is('html'); // => 'html'
ctx.is('text/html'); // => 'text/html'
ctx.is('text/*', 'text/html'); // => 'text/html'

// When Content-Type is application/json
ctx.is('json', 'urlencoded'); // => 'json'
ctx.is('application/json'); // => 'application/json'
ctx.is('html', 'application/*'); // => 'application/json'

ctx.is('html'); // => false

For example if you want to ensure that only images are sent to a given route:

if (ctx.is('image/*')) {
  // process
} else {
  ctx.throw(415, 'images only!');
}

request.idempotent

Check if the request is idempotent.

request.socket

Return the request socket.

request.get(field)

Return request header with case-insensitive field.