Lambda event.body object from browser POST response is of different type

[nicolasblanco]

Hello,

When I console.log(event.body) and perform a POST request by submitting a classical HTML form from the browser through AWS API Gateway->Lambda I get something like a query string:

event.body = 'first_name=Blabla&last_name=OOOOO&email=oooo%40aaa.com'

when running the same function via serverless-offline plugin on my localhost I get:

event.body = '{"first_name":"Blabla","last_name":"OOOOO","email":"oooo@aaa.com"}'

which looks like a JSON string.

I used same Node.js version (4.3.2).

Why is there this difference?

[BobbieBarker]

what is this issue a duplicate of? I think I'm having the same issue.