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<h1 class="lined-header"><span>Reading the request body</span></h1>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The request body can be read using the Req object.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Cowboy will not attempt to read the body until requested.
You need to call the body reading functions in order to
retrieve it.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Cowboy will not cache the body, it is therefore only
possible to read it once.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>You are not required to read it, however. If a body is
present and was not read, Cowboy will either cancel or
skip its download, depending on the protocol.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Cowboy provides functions for reading the body raw,
and read and parse form urlencoded or <a href="../multipart">multipart bodies</a>.
The latter is covered in its own chapter.</p></div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_request_body_presence">Request body presence</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>Not all requests come with a body. You can check for
the presence of a request body with this function:</p></div>
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<pre><tt><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">cowboy_req:has_body</span></span>(<span style="color: #009900">Req</span>)<span style="color: #990000">.</span></tt></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>It returns <code>true</code> if there is a body; <code>false</code> otherwise.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>In practice, this function is rarely used. When the
method is <code>POST</code>, <code>PUT</code> or <code>PATCH</code>, the request body
is often required by the application, which should
just attempt to read it directly.</p></div>
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<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_request_body_length">Request body length</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>You can obtain the length of the body:</p></div>
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<pre><tt><span style="color: #009900">Length</span> <span style="color: #990000">=</span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">cowboy_req:body_length</span></span>(<span style="color: #009900">Req</span>)<span style="color: #990000">.</span></tt></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Note that the length may not be known in advance. In
that case <code>undefined</code> will be returned. This can happen
with HTTP/1.1’s chunked transfer-encoding, or HTTP/2
when no content-length was provided.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Cowboy will update the body length in the Req object
once the body has been read completely. A length will
always be returned when attempting to call this function
after reading the body completely.</p></div>
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<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_reading_the_body">Reading the body</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>You can read the entire body with one function call:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF6600">ok</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Data</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Req</span>} <span style="color: #990000">=</span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">cowboy_req:read_body</span></span>(<span style="color: #009900">Req0</span>)<span style="color: #990000">.</span></tt></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Cowboy returns an <code>ok</code> tuple when the body has been
read fully.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>By default, Cowboy will attempt to read up to 8MB
of data, for up to 15 seconds. The call will return
once Cowboy has read at least 8MB of data, or at
the end of the 15 seconds period.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>These values can be customized. For example, to read
only up to 1MB for up to 5 seconds:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF6600">ok</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Data</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Req</span>} <span style="color: #990000">=</span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">cowboy_req:read_body</span></span>(<span style="color: #009900">Req0</span>,
#{<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000080">length</span></span> <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #993399">1000000</span>, <span style="color: #0000FF">period</span> <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #993399">5000</span>})<span style="color: #990000">.</span></tt></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>You may also disable the length limit:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF6600">ok</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Data</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Req</span>} <span style="color: #990000">=</span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">cowboy_req:read_body</span></span>(<span style="color: #009900">Req0</span>, #{<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000080">length</span></span> <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF6600">infinity</span>})<span style="color: #990000">.</span></tt></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This makes the function wait 15 seconds and return with
whatever arrived during that period. This is not
recommended for public facing applications.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>These two options can effectively be used to control
the rate of transmission of the request body.</p></div>
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<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_streaming_the_body">Streaming the body</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>When the body is too large, the first call will return
a <code>more</code> tuple instead of <code>ok</code>. You can call the
function again to read more of the body, reading
it one chunk at a time.</p></div>
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<pre><tt><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">read_body_to_console</span></span>(<span style="color: #009900">Req0</span>) <span style="color: #990000">-></span>
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">case</span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">cowboy_req:read_body</span></span>(<span style="color: #009900">Req0</span>) <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">of</span></span>
{<span style="color: #FF6600">ok</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Data</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Req</span>} <span style="color: #990000">-></span>
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">io:format</span></span>(<span style="color: #FF0000">"~s"</span>, [<span style="color: #009900">Data</span>]),
<span style="color: #009900">Req</span>;
{<span style="color: #FF6600">more</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Data</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Req</span>} <span style="color: #990000">-></span>
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">io:format</span></span>(<span style="color: #FF0000">"~s"</span>, [<span style="color: #009900">Data</span>]),
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">read_body_to_console</span></span>(<span style="color: #009900">Req</span>)
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span><span style="color: #990000">.</span></tt></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The <code>length</code> and <code>period</code> options can also be used.
They need to be passed for every call.</p></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_reading_a_form_urlencoded_body">Reading a form urlencoded body</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>Cowboy provides a convenient function for reading and
parsing bodies sent as application/x-www-form-urlencoded.</p></div>
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<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF6600">ok</span>, <span style="color: #009900">KeyValues</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Req</span>} <span style="color: #990000">=</span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">cowboy_req:read_urlencoded_body</span></span>(<span style="color: #009900">Req0</span>)<span style="color: #990000">.</span></tt></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This function returns a list of key/values, exactly like
the function <code>cowboy_req:parse_qs/1</code>.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The defaults for this function are different. Cowboy will
read for up to 64KB and up to 5 seconds. They can be modified:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>{<span style="color: #FF6600">ok</span>, <span style="color: #009900">KeyValues</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Req</span>} <span style="color: #990000">=</span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">cowboy_req:read_urlencoded_body</span></span>(<span style="color: #009900">Req0</span>,
#{<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000080">length</span></span> <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #993399">4096</span>, <span style="color: #0000FF">period</span> <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #993399">3000</span>})<span style="color: #990000">.</span></tt></pre></div></div>
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