[javascript] How do I post form data with fetch api?

My code:

fetch("api/xxx", {
    body: new FormData(document.getElementById("form")),
    headers: {
        "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
        // "Content-Type": "multipart/form-data",
    },
    method: "post",
}

I tried to post my form using fetch api, and the body it sends is like:

-----------------------------114782935826962
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="email"

[email protected]
-----------------------------114782935826962
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="password"

pw
-----------------------------114782935826962--

(I don't know why the number in boundary is changed every time it sends...)

I would like it to send the data with "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", what should I do? Or if I just have to deal with it, how do I decode the data in my controller?

To whom answer my question, I know I can do it with:

fetch("api/xxx", {
    body: "[email protected]&password=pw",
    headers: {
        "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
    },
    method: "post",
}

What I want is something like $("#form").serialize() in jQuery (w/o using jQuery) or the way to decode mulitpart/form-data in controller. Thanks for your answers though.

To add on the good answers above you can also avoid setting explicitly the action in HTML and use an event handler in javascript, using "this" as the form to create the "FormData" object

Html form :

<form id="mainForm" class="" novalidate>
<!--Whatever here...-->
</form>

In your JS :

$("#mainForm").submit(function( event ) {
  event.preventDefault();
  const formData = new URLSearchParams(new FormData(this));
  fetch("http://localhost:8080/your/server",
    {   method: 'POST',
        mode : 'same-origin',
        credentials: 'same-origin' ,
        body : formData
    })
    .then(function(response) {
      return response.text()
    }).then(function(text) {
        //text is the server's response
    });
});

?These can help you:

let formData = new FormData();
            formData.append("name", "John");
            formData.append("password", "John123");
            fetch("https://yourwebhook", {
              method: "POST",
              mode: "no-cors",
              cache: "no-cache",
              credentials: "same-origin",
              headers: {
                "Content-Type": "form-data"
              },
              body: formData
            });
            //router.push("/registro-completado");
          } else {
            // doc.data() will be undefined in this case
            console.log("No such document!");
          }
        })
        .catch(function(error) {
          console.log("Error getting document:", error);
        });

// Write Data

async function write(param) {
  var zahl = param.getAttribute("data-role");

  let mood = {
    appId: app_ID,
    key: "",
    value: zahl
  };

  let response = await fetch(web_api, {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    body: JSON.stringify(mood)
  });
  console.log(currentMood);

// Get Data

async function get() {

  let response = await fetch(web_api + "/App/" + app_ID, {
    method: "GET",
    headers: {
      "Content-Typ": "application/jason"
    }
  });

  let todos = await response.json();

// Remove Data

function remove(id) {
  return fetch(web_api" + id, {
    method: "DELETE"
  }).then(response => {
    if (!response.ok) {
      throw new Error("Todo konnte nicht entfernt werden.");
    }
  });
}


async function removeAll() {
  let response = await fetch(web_api + "/App/" + app_ID, {
    method: "GET",
    headers: {
      "Content-Typ": "application/jason"
    }
  });
  let todos = await response.json();
  console.log(todos);

  for (let todo of todos) {
    await remove(todo.id);
  }
}

// Update Data

  function updateTodo(todo) {
return fetch(`https://__________________/api/items/${todo.id}`, {
  method: "PUT",
  body: JSON.stringify(todo),
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
}).then((response) => {
  if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error("Todo konnte nicht upgedated werden.");
  }
});

}

Client

Do not set the content-type header.

// Build formData object.
let formData = new FormData();
formData.append('name', 'John');
formData.append('password', 'John123');

fetch("api/SampleData",
    {
        body: formData,
        method: "post"
    });

Server

Use the FromForm attribute to specify that binding source is form data.

[Route("api/[controller]")]
public class SampleDataController : Controller
{
    [HttpPost]
    public IActionResult Create([FromForm]UserDto dto)
    {
        return Ok();
    }
}

public class UserDto
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Password { get; set; }
}

Use FormData and fetch to grab and send data

fetch(form.action, {method:'post', body: new FormData(form)});

function send(e,form) {
  fetch(form.action, {method:'post', body: new FormData(form)});

  console.log('We send post asynchronously (AJAX)');
  e.preventDefault();
}

<form method="POST" action="myapi/send" onsubmit="send(event,this)">
    <input hidden name="crsfToken" value="a1e24s1">
    <input name="email" value="[email protected]">
    <input name="phone" value="123-456-789">
    <input type="submit">    
</form>

Look on chrome console>network before/after 'submit'

To post form data with fetch api, try this code it works for me ^_^

function card(fileUri) {
let body = new FormData();
let formData = new FormData();
formData.append('file', fileUri);

fetch("http://X.X.X.X:PORT/upload",
  {
      body: formData,
      method: "post"
  });
 }

You can set body to an instance of URLSearchParams with query string passed as argument

fetch("/path/to/server", {
  method:"POST"
, body:new URLSearchParams("[email protected]&password=pw")
})

document.forms[0].onsubmit = async(e) => {_x000D_
  e.preventDefault();_x000D_
  const params = new URLSearchParams([...new FormData(e.target).entries()]);_x000D_
  // fetch("/path/to/server", {method:"POST", body:params})_x000D_
  const response = await new Response(params).text();_x000D_
  console.log(response);_x000D_
}

<form>_x000D_
  <input name="email" value="[email protected]">_x000D_
  <input name="password" value="pw">_x000D_
  <input type="submit">_x000D_
</form>

With fetch api it turned out that you do NOT have to include headers "Content-type": "multipart/form-data".

So the following works:

let formData = new FormData()
formData.append("nameField", fileToSend)

fetch(yourUrlToPost, {
   method: "POST",
   body: formData
})

Note that with axios I had to use the content-type.