freeCodeCamp/curriculum/challenges/english/05-apis-and-microservices/basic-node-and-express/get-data-from-post-requests.md

id, title, challengeType, forumTopicId, dashedName

id	title	challengeType	forumTopicId	dashedName
587d7fb2367417b2b2512bf8	Get Data from POST Requests	2	301511	get-data-from-post-requests

--description--

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:

route: POST '/library'
urlencoded_body: userId=546&bookId=6754
req.body: {userId: '546', bookId: '6754'}

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.

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:

POST (sometimes PUT) - Create a new resource using the information sent with the request,

GET - Read an existing resource without modifying it,

PUT or PATCH (sometimes POST) - Update a resource using the data sent,

DELETE => Delete a resource.

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.

--hints--

Test 1 : Your API endpoint should respond with the correct name

(getUserInput) =>
  $.post(getUserInput('url') + '/name', { first: 'Mick', last: 'Jagger' }).then(
    (data) => {
      assert.equal(
        data.name,
        'Mick Jagger',
        'Test 1: "POST /name" route does not behave as expected'
      );
    },
    (xhr) => {
      throw new Error(xhr.responseText);
    }
  );

Test 2 : Your API endpoint should respond with the correct name

(getUserInput) =>
  $.post(getUserInput('url') + '/name', {
    first: 'Keith',
    last: 'Richards'
  }).then(
    (data) => {
      assert.equal(
        data.name,
        'Keith Richards',
        'Test 2: "POST /name" route does not behave as expected'
      );
    },
    (xhr) => {
      throw new Error(xhr.responseText);
    }
  );

--solutions--

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