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Report Inappropriate Content · 07-21-2015 03:08 PM

An email company is sending a POST request to my API, they want me to send them a 200 response asap before I do any additional processing.

Can I send the 200 from the server-usergrid.js and still be able to execute some additional code in another JS file? I’m new to node.js so I’m not sure if the send command stops additional coding.

app.post('/postEmailReceipt', function (req, res) {
    res.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin","*");
    if (!req.is('json')) {
      res.status(400).send('Bad request not JSON');
     return;
    }else{
     res.sendStatus(200);
     ReceiptController.postEmailReceipt(req, res); 
   }
});

anilsr

Dear @jerryhamby,

Execution doesn't stop even if you send status back to client in Node.JS program. Your code still executes after res.sendStatus...

See example below..

var express = require('express');
var app = express();
app.get('/', function(req, res){
  res.sendStatus('200');
  console.log("Code still executes...");
});
app.listen(3000);

Cheers,

Anil Sagar

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