res.send()
Send a simple response. statusCode defaults to 200 ("OK").
This method is used in the underlying implementation of most of the other terminal response methods.
Usage
return res.send([statusCode,] body);
Details
This method performs a myriad of useful tasks for simple non-streaming responses such as automatically assigning the Content-Length unless previously defined and providing automatic HEAD and HTTP cache freshness support.
When a Buffer is given the Content-Type is set to "application/octet-stream" unless previously defined as shown below:
res.set('Content-Type', 'text/html');
res.send(new Buffer('some html'));
When a String is given the Content-Type is set to "text/html":
res.send('some html');
When an Array or Object is given Express will respond with the JSON representation:
res.send({ user: 'tobi' })
res.send([1,2,3])
Finally when a Number is given without any of the previously mentioned bodies, then a response body string is assigned for you. For example 200 will respond will the text "OK", and 404 "Not Found" and so on.
res.send(200)
res.send(404)
res.send(500)
Example
res.send(new Buffer('whoop'));
res.send({ some: 'json' });
res.send('some html');
res.send(404, 'Sorry, we cannot find that!');
res.send(500, { error: 'something blew up' });
res.send(200);
Notes
- This method is terminal, meaning it is generally the last line of code your app should run for a given request (hence the advisory usage of
returnthroughout these docs).
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Reference
- Application
- Blueprint API
- Command Line Interface
-
Configuration
- sails.config.*
- sails.config.blueprints
- sails.config.bootstrap()
- sails.config.connections
- sails.config.cors
- sails.config.csrf
- sails.config.globals
- sails.config.http
- sails.config.i18n
- sails.config.log
- sails.config.models
- sails.config.policies
- sails.config.routes
- sails.config.session
- sails.config.sockets
- sails.config.views
-
Request (`req`)
- req.accepted
- req.acceptedCharsets
- req.acceptedLanguages
- req.body
- req.cookies
- req.fresh
- req.headers
- req.host
- req.ip
- req.ips
- req.isSocket
- req.method
- req.options
- req.originalUrl
- req.params
- req.path
- req.protocol
- req.query
- req.secure
- req.signedCookies
- req.socket
- req.subdomains
- req.url
- req.wantsJSON
- req.xhr
- req.accepts()
- req.acceptsCharset()
- req.acceptsLanguage()
- req.allParams()
- req.file()
- req.get()
- req.is()
- req.param()
- Response (`res`)
- Waterline (ORM)
- WebSockets
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