Back End Development and APIs Projects - URL Shortener Microservice

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
I am gestting Cannot POST /api/shorturl

Your project link(s)
https://boilerplate-project-urlshortener.kritostar.repl.co/
solution: boilerplate-project-urlshortener - Replit

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Challenge: Back End Development and APIs Projects - URL Shortener Microservice

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You are supposed to set up a POST route at /api/shorturl. Instead you have set up a POST route to /api/shorturl/new. Once you fix that you will find you have not defined a variable you are using on line 42. You have another only line 42.

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I have just corrected the code, and the redirect and find is working but the challenge is showing me X

4

When I submit a new url, I expect to get a JSON reponse containing original_url and short_url properties. With the way you have written your code, the only time I will get such a response, is if I submit a previously submitted (and saved url).

The issue is in your current logic (shown below):

      if (!docs) {
        var nuevo = new Direccion({
          original_url: url
        });
        console.log('about to save')
        nuevo.save();

      }
      else {
        res.json({
          original_url: docs.original_url,
          short_url: docs.short_url
        })
      }

You only return a JSON response if docs is not null which means if the findOne method actually finds an existing url.

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Yeap, I dont know how to save and show the saved one :S

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Sure you do. You return a JSON response in your else code block.

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yes but if its a new one, I am saving and that’s it, I am not showing it

8

But according to the project instructions, if you submit a valid url, you must return the applicable JSON response. The instructions do not say “Only return a JSON response if the url submitted was previously submitted and saved.”

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Sorry to keep on bothering you. My code is now working, but the tests are not passing. Can you see maybe why? Thanks a lot

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You modified the index.html file and changed the name attribute from url to input_url. The tests are expecting to post using a name of url, so if you change it back, then you will pass the first 3 tests.

The last test is failing because the tests are not expecting to receive a 401 status. Just return the required JSON object without changing the status and you will pass it.

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