Handle response – SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input when using mode: 'no-cors'

I tried a ReactJS fetch call to a REST-API and want to handle the response. The call works, i get a response, which i can see in Chrome Dev Tools:

function getAllCourses() {
fetch('http://localhost:8080/course', {
    method: 'POST',
    mode: 'no-cors',
    credentials: 'same-origin',
    headers: {
        'Accept': 'application/json',
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
        objectClass: 'course',
        crud: '2'
    })
}).then(function (response) {
    console.log(response);
    return response.json();

}).catch(function (err) {
    console.log(err)
});
}

When i try to handle the response, i got a “SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input” at

return response.json();

The console.log looks like this:

My Response JSON looks like this, it is valid, i checked it with jsonlint:

[
  {
    "0x1": {
      "users": [],
      "lectures": [],
      "owner": "0x2",
      "title": "WWI 14 SEA",
      "description": null,
      "objectClass": "course",
      "id": "course_00001"
    },
    "0x2": {
      "username": "system",
      "lectures": [],
      "course": null,
      "solutions": [],
      "exercises": [],
      "roles": [
        "0x3",
        "0x4",
        "0x5"
      ],
      "objectClass": "user",
      "id": "user_00001"
    },
    "0x3": {
      "roleName": "ROLE_ADMIN",
      "objectClass": "role",
      "id": "role_00001"
    },
    "0x4": {
      "roleName": "ROLE_STUDENT",
      "objectClass": "role",
      "id": "role_00002"
    },
    "0x5": {
      "roleName": "ROLE_DOCENT",
      "objectClass": "role",
      "id": "role_00003"
    }
  }
]

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Method 1

You need to remove the mode: 'no-cors' setting from your request. Setting no-cors mode is exactly the cause of the problem you’re having.

A no-cors request makes the response type opaque. The log snippet in the question shows that. Opaque means your frontend JavaScript code can’t see the response body or headers.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request/mode explains:

no-cors — JavaScript may not access any properties of the resulting Response

So the effect of setting no-cors mode is essentially to tell browsers, “Don’t let frontend JavaScript code access the response body or headers under any circumstances.”

I imagine you’re trying no-cors because the response from http://localhost:8080/course doesn’t include the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header or else because your request is one that triggers a CORS preflight, and so your browser does an OPTIONS preflight.

But using no-cors mode is not the solution to those problems. The solution is either to:

configure the http://localhost:8080 server to send the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header and to handle the OPTIONS request
or set up a CORS proxy using code from https://github.com/Rob–W/cors-anywhere/ or such (see the How to use a CORS proxy to get around “No Access-Control-Allow-Origin header” problems section of the answer at No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource—when trying to get data from a REST API)

Method 2

In your then you should check if the response is OK before returning response.json:

.then(function (response) {
    if (!response.ok) {
        return Promise.reject('some reason');
    }

    return response.json();

})

If you want to have the error message in your rejected promise, you can do something like:

.then(function (response) {
    if (!response.ok) {
       return response.text().then(result => Promise.reject(new Error(result)));
    }

    return response.json();
})

Method 3

I know this answer might be super late and might have been resolved but i just had the same issue today and I just needed to add a ‘,’ at the end of the headers hash and i stopped getting the error

export function addContacts(formData) {
  return(dispatch) => {
    dispatch({type: 'POSTING_CONTACTS'});
    console.log(formData)
    return fetch(uri, {
      method: 'POST',
      body: JSON.stringify({contact: {name: formData.name, phone_number: formData.phoneNumber}}),
      headers: {
        Accept: 'application/json',
        'Content-Type': 'application/json'
      },
    })
    .then(response => {
        return response.json()
      }).then(responseJSON => {
        console.log(responseJSON)
        return dispatch({type: 'ADD_CONTACT', payload: responseJSON});
      })
  }
}

Method 4

You can avoid the problem with CORS policy by adding in the header of php or another server endpoint the row:

<?php
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
//or
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://example.com');

// Reading JSON POST using PHP
$json = file_get_contents('php://input');
$jsonObj = json_decode($json);

// Use $jsonObj
print_r($jsonObj->message);

...
// End php
?>

Model of working fetch code with POST request is:

const data = {
        optPost: 'myAPI',
        message: 'We make a research of fetch'
    };
const endpoint = 'http://example.com/php/phpGetPost.php';

fetch(endpoint, {
    method: 'POST',
    body: JSON.stringify(data)
})
.then((resp) => resp.json())
.then(function(response) {
    console.info('fetch()', response);
    return response;
});

Method 5

Simply copy the following code and paste it on your web.config file under <system.webServer> tag.

<httpProtocol>  
    <customHeaders>  
     <add name="Access-Control-Allow-Origin" value="*" />  
     <add name="Access-Control-Allow-Headers" value="Content-Type" />  
     <add name="Access-Control-Allow-Methods" value="GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS" />  
    </customHeaders>  
  </httpProtocol>

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