Parse-Server shuts down once a User signup request is received

[tuwchia]

Issue Description

I was trying to sign up a user to the parse server, and the server shuts down, claiming JSON syntax error. I remove the parse-server@3.1.1 and install an earlier version, 3.0.0. Then used the same piece of data for user creation. You know what, the signup succeeds.

Steps to reproduce

After installing parse-server@3.1.1/3.1.0, and fire a curl command from the rest api doc. The parse server always shuts down.

After installing parse-server@3.0.0, and fire the same command, the parse server accepts the user creation request like always.

Expected Results

User signup succeeds when using 3.1.0 and above versions

Actual Outcome

User signup succeeds when 3.0.0 is in use, but fails 3.1.0 and above versions are in use.

Environment Setup

• Server

  • parse-server version (Be specific! Don't say 'latest'.) : 3.0.0/3.1.0/3.1.1
  • Operating System: Windows 7 64bit
  • Hardware: 4 Core/8 GB
  • Localhost or remote server? (AWS, Heroku, Azure, Digital Ocean, etc): localhost

• Database

  • MongoDB version: 4.0
  • Storage engine: wildtiger
  • Hardware: Same machine as the server
  • Localhost or remote server? (AWS, mLab, ObjectRocket, Digital Ocean, etc): localhost

Logs/Trace

"ParseError: 100 XMLHttpRequest failed: "SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input""

[flovilmart]

Can you provide the server logs when running with VERBOSE=1 set?

[tuwchia]

nothing output, just shutdown

[flovilmart]

Are your running with the verbose logs? What is your configuration?

[tuwchia]

`[13728] parse-server running on http://localhost:1337/parse
verbose: REQUEST for [POST] /parse/users: {
"username": "cooldude6",
"password": "",
"phone": "415-392-0202"
} method=POST, url=/parse/users, host=localhost:1337, connection=keep-alive, con
tent-length=69, origin=chrome-extension://aejoelaoggembcahagimdiliamlcdmfm, x-pa
rse-application-id=7da3ed62-4ec3-4444-a112-e9cea813f910, x-parse-master-key=tlRz
TlrTwhEzMeGRCYuVdrsJc25WX1cS, content-type=application/json, user-agent=Mozilla/
5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7
0.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36, x-parse-revocable-session=1, accept=/, accept-enco
ding=gzip, deflate, br, accept-language=zh-CN,zh;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7, use
rname=cooldude6, password=, phone=415-392-0202

E:\Projects\devdocBack>`

[tuwchia]

in verbose mode, just output the request with data and headers, and then the server quits

[flovilmart]

What is the exit code of the process? What version of node are you running?

[tuwchia]

no exit code

[tuwchia]

I just installed the parse-server@3.1.1 using npm instead of yarn. It succeeds with user creation.

[flovilmart]

this should make no difference, unless you had different versions of node.

[tuwchia]

i don't know why. Since parse-server required node-gyp to compile, and i think there might be differences between npm and yarn in the way they do the compilation.

[flovilmart]

We do not test with yarn nor support it actively.