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---
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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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---
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## Description
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<section id='description'>
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Mount a POST handler at the path <code>/name</code>. 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 <code>req.body</code>. 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: <code>{name: 'firstname lastname'}</code>. 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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</section>
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## Instructions
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<section id='instructions'>
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</section>
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## Tests
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<section id='tests'>
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```yml
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tests:
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- text: 'Test 1 : Your API endpoint should respond with the correct name'
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testString: '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); })'
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- text: 'Test 2 : Your API endpoint should respond with the correct name'
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testString: '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); })'
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```
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</section>
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## Challenge Seed
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<section id='challengeSeed'>
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</section>
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## Solution
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<section id='solution'>
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```js
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// solution required
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```
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</section>
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