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express 5.2.1: Handle Express JSON body parser strictness and response serialization boundaries across primitives, strings, Buffers, and cookies

Verified sample for npm express 5.2.1: Handle Express JSON body parser strictness and response serialization boundaries across primitives, strings, Buffers…

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Declared environment node linux x64 node node npm

Verification-run environments

Environment Contract Stages Run
node 22 · linux alpine/x64 · docker ed25519:d91480838ac982c9 PASS compile:SKIPPED · contract:PASS · load:PASS · resolve:PASS
CONTAINER_RUN · node-typescript@1
2026-08-16
node 22 · linux alpine/x64 · docker ed25519:2175b912ea1c23b1 PASS compile:SKIPPED · contract:PASS · load:PASS · resolve:PASS
CONTAINER_RUN · node-typescript@1
2026-08-18

Case

HOW
Goal
Handle Express JSON body parser strictness and response serialization boundaries across primitives, strings, Buffers, and cookies
Packages
Symbols
  • express.json
  • res.send
  • res.json
  • res.cookie
Environment
node
Created
2026-08-16T16:35:35Z

Contract

  1. express.json() with default settings rejects top-level JSON primitives such as numbers and booleans with HTTP 400 SyntaxError due to strict mode, requiring explicit strict: false to accept non-object and non-array JSON payloads
  2. res.send() sets Content-Type to text/html; charset=utf-8 when given a serialized JSON string rather than inferring application/json
  3. res.json() encodes a pre-serialized JSON string with an extra layer of escaped quotes rather than passing the JSON payload through
  4. res.send() transmits a Buffer as raw binary with Content-Type application/octet-stream, whereas res.json() converts the Buffer into a JSON object with type 'Buffer' and a numeric byte array
  5. res.cookie() prefixes serialized JavaScript objects with 'j:' in the Set-Cookie header while stringifying numbers and booleans directly

Files

  • NOTES.md
  • csx.json
  • package-lock.json
  • package.json
  • src/app.mjs
  • test/contract.mjs

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