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Post JSON

Send a POST request with JSON data. Use to share data with external servers.
/**
 * Example someHost is set up to take in a JSON request
 * Replace url with the host you wish to send requests to
 * @param {string} url the URL to send the request to
 * @param {BodyInit} body the JSON data to send in the request
 */
const someHost = 'https://examples.cloudflareworkers.com/demos';
const url = someHost + '/requests/json';
const body = {
  results: ['default data to send'],
  errors: null,
  msg: 'I sent this to the fetch',
};

/**
 * gatherResponse awaits and returns a response body as a string.
 * Use await gatherResponse(..) in an async function to get the response body
 * @param {Response} response
 */
async function gatherResponse(response) {
  const { headers } = response;
  const contentType = headers.get('content-type') || '';
  if (contentType.includes('application/json')) {
    return JSON.stringify(await response.json());
  } else if (contentType.includes('application/text')) {
    return response.text();
  } else if (contentType.includes('text/html')) {
    return response.text();
  } else {
    return response.text();
  }
}

async function handleRequest() {
  const init = {
    body: JSON.stringify(body),
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      'content-type': 'application/json;charset=UTF-8',
    },
  };
  const response = await fetch(url, init);
  const results = await gatherResponse(response);
  return new Response(results, init);
}
addEventListener('fetch', event => {
  return event.respondWith(handleRequest());
});