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id: 587d7fb2367417b2b2512bf8
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title: Get Data from POST Requests
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challengeType: 2
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forumTopicId: 301511
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dashedName: get-data-from-post-requests
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---
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# --description--
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Mount a POST handler at the path `/name`. It’s the same path as before. We have prepared a form in the html frontpage. It will submit the same data of exercise 10 (Query string). If the body-parser is configured correctly, you should find the parameters in the object `req.body`. Have a look at the usual library example:
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<blockquote>route: POST '/library'<br>urlencoded_body: userId=546&bookId=6754 <br>req.body: {userId: '546', bookId: '6754'}</blockquote>
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Respond with the same JSON object as before: `{name: 'firstname lastname'}`. Test if your endpoint works using the html form we provided in the app frontpage.
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Tip: There are several other http methods other than GET and POST. And by convention there is a correspondence between the http verb, and the operation you are going to execute on the server. The conventional mapping is:
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POST (sometimes PUT) - Create a new resource using the information sent with the request,
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GET - Read an existing resource without modifying it,
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PUT or PATCH (sometimes POST) - Update a resource using the data sent,
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DELETE => Delete a resource.
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There are also a couple of other methods which are used to negotiate a connection with the server. Except from GET, all the other methods listed above can have a payload (i.e. the data into the request body). The body-parser middleware works with these methods as well.
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# --hints--
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Test 1 : Your API endpoint should respond with the correct name
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```js
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(getUserInput) =>
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$.post(getUserInput('url') + '/name', { first: 'Mick', last: 'Jagger' }).then(
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(data) => {
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assert.equal(
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data.name,
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'Mick Jagger',
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'Test 1: "POST /name" route does not behave as expected'
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);
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},
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(xhr) => {
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throw new Error(xhr.responseText);
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}
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);
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```
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Test 2 : Your API endpoint should respond with the correct name
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```js
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(getUserInput) =>
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$.post(getUserInput('url') + '/name', {
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first: 'Keith',
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last: 'Richards'
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}).then(
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(data) => {
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assert.equal(
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data.name,
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'Keith Richards',
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'Test 2: "POST /name" route does not behave as expected'
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);
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},
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(xhr) => {
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throw new Error(xhr.responseText);
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}
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);
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```
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# --solutions--
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```js
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/**
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Backend challenges don't need solutions,
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because they would need to be tested against a full working project.
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Please check our contributing guidelines to learn more.
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*/
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```
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