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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:

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

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

  const response = await fetch(code + '/name', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
    },
    body: new URLSearchParams({ first: 'Mick', last: 'Jagger' })
  });
  if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(await response.text());
  }
  const data = await response.json();
  assert.equal(
    data.name,
    'Mick Jagger',
    'Test 1: "POST /name" route does not behave as expected'
  );

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

  const response = await fetch(code + '/name', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
    },
    body: new URLSearchParams({
      first: 'Keith',
      last: 'Richards'
    })
  });
  if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(await response.text());
  }
  const data = await response.json();
  assert.equal(
    data.name,
    'Keith Richards',
    'Test 2: "POST /name" route does not behave as expected'
  );

Get Data from POST Requests

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