Accessing JSON Request Parameters in Sails

In my controllers and other scopes where there is an object req

, I can access the request parameters with req.params('username')

. This is fine for normal POST data, but I want my API to accept a JSON object in the request body and convert it to parameters that I can still get with req.params()

.

So, for example, if I send this as a POST request body to my controller action:

{'username': 'Chris', 'password': 'mypass'}

      

        
        
        
      

    

I want to get username and password using req.params('username')

and req.param('password')

.

At the moment, the only thing that works is to send data like this:

username=Chris&password=mypass

      

        
        
        
      

    

Any ideas?