Back End Development and APIs Projects - Exercise Tracker

[infigral]

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Hello everyone,

I am currently doing the Exercise Tracker Microservice project in the Backend Development & API’s certification. The app itself works fine. I have tested it multiple times to confirm, and the responses are exactly the same as the project requirements as well as the demo website.

The only issue I have is it seems all the tests related to the path api/users/:_id/logs fail despite it returning the appropriate response (format’s correct, and the exercise logs that are returned conform to the &from, &to, and &count queries. All other tests work fine. My endpoint code is below:

let initial;
let final;
let ct;
app.get('/api/users/:_id/logs', (req, res) => {
  //path looks like /logs?from=date1&to=date2&limit=number
  //setup
    if(req.query.from){
      initial = new Date(req.query.from)
    }else{
      initial = new Date('1970-01-01')
    }
  
    if(req.query.to){
      final = new Date(req.query.to)
    }else{
      final = new Date()
    }
  
    if(req.query.limit){
       ct = req.query.limit
    }else{
        ct = 1000
    }

  User.findById(req.params._id, (err, data) => {
    let gotUsername = data.username;
    if(!data){
      console.log('user undefined.')
    }else{
      Exercise.find({userId: req.params._id, date: {$gte: initial, $lte: final}}).limit(ct).exec ((err, output) => {
        let newOutput = output.map(o => (
          {
          description: o.description,
          duration: o.duration,
          date: o.date.toDateString()
          }
        ))
        res.send({username: gotUsername, _id: req.params._id, count: newOutput.length, log: newOutput})
      })
        
      
    }
  })
})

No errors are generated when code runs, at least for me. Could someone else test it out to see if it works for them / spot what’s going on? My project link is below.

Thank you for your time.

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solution: boilerplate-project-exercisetracker-5 - Nix (beta) Repl - Replit

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Challenge: Back End Development and APIs Projects - Exercise Tracker

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[jeremy.a.gray]

Debug your POST exercise route as that is where most of the problem is as the code is not correctly handling missing dates and produces

req.body: {"description":"test","duration":"60"}
req.params: {"_id":"63002cbbd62aa95a446332ea"}
req.query: {}
string
Invalid Date
Error: Exercise validation failed: date: Cast to date failed for value "Invalid Date" (type Date) at path "date"

when no date is supplied by the tests. Log the route inputs and outputs here and on the GET logs route for more information.

[infigral]

Thank you so much!!! It helped a ton!