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Request

The Request interface is part of the Fetch API and represents the request of fetch().

Constructor

The Request() constructor creates a new Request instance.

let request = new Request(input, init);

Parameters

name type optional description
resource Request or USVString false The resource can either be a request object or a URL string.
init RequestInit true The init object lets you set optional parameters to apply to the request.

The return type is a Request instance.

RequestInit
name type default description
[method][method] string GET The method of the request.
[headers][headers] Headers or { [key: string]: string } none Th Headers for the request.
[body][body] Blob, BufferSource, FormData, URLSearchParams, USVString, or ReadableStream none The body of the request.
[cache][cache] string none The cache mode of the request.
[credentials][credentials] string same-origin The credentials mode of the request.
[integrity][integrity] string none The crypotographic hash of the request's body.
[mode][mode] string cors The request mode you want to use.
[redirect][redirect] string follow The mode of how redirects are handled.
[referrer][referrer] string about:client A USVString specifying no-referrer, client or a URL.

Properties

name type description
[cache][cache] string The cache mode indicates how the (default, no-cache, etc) request should be cached by browser.
[credentials][credentials] string The credentials (omit, same-origin, etc) indicate whether user agent should send cookies in case of CORs of the request.
[destination][destination] [RequestDestination][requestdestination] The string indicates the type of content being requested.
[body][body] [ReadableStream][readablestream] The getter exposes a ReadableStream of the body contents.
[bodyUsed][bodyused] boolean Indicates whether the body content is read.
[url][url] USVString The URL of the request.
[headers][headers] Headers The headers associated with the request.
[integrity][integrity] string The crypotographic hash of the request's body.
[method][method] string The request's method (POST, GET, etc).
[mode][mode] string Indicates the mode of the request (e.g. cors ).
[redirect][redirect] string The mode of how redirects are handled.
[referrer][referrer] string The referrer of the request.
[referrerPolicy][referrerpolicy] string The referrer policy of the request

All the above properties are read only.

Methods

name description
[arrayBuffer()][arraybuffer] Reads the body stream to its completion and returns an ArrayBuffer object.
[blob()][blob] Reads the body stream to its completion and returns a Blob object.
[formData()][formdata] Reads the body stream to its completion and returns a FormData object.
[json()][json] Reads the body stream to its completion, parses it as JSON and returns a JavaScript object.
[text()][text] Reads the body stream to its completion and returns a USVString object (text).
[clone()][clone] Clones the Request object.

Example

import { serve } from "https://deno.land/std@0.140.0/http/server.ts";

function handler(_req) {
  // Create a post request
  const request = new Request("https://post.deno.dev", {
    method: "POST",
    body: JSON.stringify({
      message: "Hello world!",
    }),
    headers: {
      "content-type": "application/json",
    },
  });

  console.log(request.method); // POST
  console.log(request.headers.get("content-type")); // application/json

  return fetch(request);
}

serve(handler);