How to POST data to a URL from NestJs code? - post

Question

I have a login form with username and password. I'm trying to validate these credentials using the Nest Js authentication strategy here. So in the corresponding auth.service.ts file, I'm using "nativescript core modules http" to do a POST request to OAuth URL to validate credentials . But this doesn't work:
import { Injectable } from '#nestjs/common';
import { request } from "tns-core-modules/http";
const OAUTH_URL = 'url';
#Injectable()
export class AuthService {
async validateUser(username: string, password: string): Promise<any> {
let data = new FormData();
data.set('client_id', 'sb-nestjs-app!t36258');
data.set('client_secret', 'XrHuBRhyvuVNYNJNHlWLgcuBIyc=');
data.set('username', username);
data.set('password', password);
data.set('grant_type', 'password');
data.set('response_type', 'token');
request({
url: OAUTH_URL,
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
"Accept": "application/json;charset=utf8"
},
content: data
}).then((response) => {
console.log('response => ' + response + ' statuscode ' + response.statusCode);
if (response.statusCode == 200) {
const token = response.content['access_token'];
//TODO:
// need to send scope also
return token;
}
}, (e) => {
console.log('error' + e);
return null;
});
return null;
}
}
When I run 'nest start' after above code in place, I receive Error: Cannot find module './http-request'
I'm not sure what is going here, I tried "npm install http-request" it didn't work either. Basically, I need to POST credentials to a OAuth url in NestJs. Any guidance? Thank you.

Answer 1

Try with HttpModule from NestJS.
Also you can try request from npm, but they deprecated this package. From what I saw on their discussion, the package still works but you will not have support for it, or anything. Here are some alternatives to it .
I'm not sure you are using the correct request npm module. I'm talking about:
import { request } from "tns-core-modules/http"
Good Luck!