request.formData: Could not parse content as FormData | Astro Lounge | Page 1

onyx wolf Oct 9, 2024, 11:33 PM

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I'm trying to follow a guide for inserting data into AstroDB and the example is failing with "request.formData: Could not parse content as FormData".

Other posts on here suggest this might have something to do with SSR. I've tried adding export const prerender = false; to the top of the file but it doesn't change anything.

Kind of at a loss here. This seems like a pretty simple thing that should just work.

glossy raft Oct 10, 2024, 12:59 AM

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Did the example code not work? May need more details about your code to find out

onyx wolf Oct 10, 2024, 1:10 AM

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Here is what I am running and the error message

wooden crag Oct 10, 2024, 1:17 AM

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What is your site output? Is it static?

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https://docs.astro.build/en/recipes/build-forms/#prerequisites

Docs

Build HTML forms in Astro pages

Learn how to build HTML forms and handle submissions in your frontmatter.

onyx wolf Oct 10, 2024, 3:41 AM

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Hmm I have not configured anything related to SSR or added any adapters for that.

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It's just a stock Astro project

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I'm not sure why I would need to set all of that up just to write to the AstroDB. I guess this is more of a docs issue at this point. I think I can figure out how to write to AstroDB without relying on these custom functions

analog raptor Oct 10, 2024, 4:02 AM

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Prerequisites

A project with SSR (output: 'server') enabled

analog raptor Oct 10, 2024, 4:02 AM

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onyx wolf Hmm I have not configured anything related to SSR or added any adapters for that...

That's the issue 😅

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Writing to the DB is not related to the form

onyx wolf Oct 10, 2024, 4:04 AM

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Yeah that prereq is on a wholly different docs page than the one that has this example for AstroDB :/

analog raptor Oct 10, 2024, 4:05 AM

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Well to clarify, the issue you are having here is trying to use an HTML form on a non SSR page, it has nothing to do with Astro DB

onyx wolf Oct 10, 2024, 4:05 AM

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Thanks

analog raptor Oct 10, 2024, 4:06 AM

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I recommend Actions for handling your forms personally, you can set them all up in an index file and just call them with a simple function client side 😄

https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/actions/

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Actions

Learn how to create type-safe server functions you can call from anywhere.

analog raptor Oct 10, 2024, 4:09 AM

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onyx wolf Yeah that prereq is on a wholly different docs page than the one that has this e...

Also regarding this do you have a specific link so we can take a look and see if it needs to be improved?

onyx wolf Oct 10, 2024, 4:14 AM

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I went back and looked. It's here: https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/astro-db/#insert Turns out this example does mention it needs SSR. So the only issue here was me 🤦‍♂️

analog raptor Oct 10, 2024, 4:15 AM

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Ah no worries my friend, we've all been there! ❤️

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