Cannot pass one of the final tests (The date property of any object in the log array that is returned from GET /api/users/:_id/logs should be a string. Use the

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Hi! I hope you are great.

I have spent the last hours trying to figure out why I get this message in the Exercise Tracker from the Back End Development and APIs Project:

“The date property of any object in the log array that is returned from GET /api/users/:_id/logs should be a string. Use the dateString format of the Date API.”

I already logged the results, and read the different forums related to this topic but I am not able to understand what I am doing wrong. Everything is ok with the date format but don’t know what is happening.

Here is my Replit URL: boilerplate-project-exercisetracker - Nix (beta) Repl - Replit

Here is my index.js code

const express = require('express')
const mongoose = require('mongoose')
const bodyParser = require('body-parser')
const cors = require('cors')
const { UserModel } = require('./models')

const app = express()

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: false}))

const connectDB = async () => {
  try {
    await mongoose.connect(process.env.MONGO_URI, {
      useNewUrlParser: true,
      useUnifiedTopology: true,
    })  
        console.log('mongodb connection success!');
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error, "MongoDB Not connected!!")
  }
} 
connectDB();

require('dotenv').config()

app.use(cors())
app.use(express.static('public'))
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.sendFile(__dirname + '/views/index.html')
});

app.post("/api/users", (req, res) => {
  let mongoId;
  const newUser = new UserModel({
    username: req.body.username,
    _id: mongoId
  })

  newUser.save((err, data) => {
    if(err) console.log(err)
    mongoId = data._id
    res.json({
      username: req.body.username,
      _id: mongoId
    })
  })
})

app.get('/api/users', async (req, res) => {
  const allUsers = await UserModel.find({})
  res.send(allUsers)
})

app.post("/api/users/:id/exercises", (req, res) => {
  let currentDate = new Date().toDateString()
  let date = req.body.date === "" 
    ? currentDate 
    : new Date(req.body.date).toDateString()
  
  const id = req.params.id
  UserModel.findById({
    _id: id
  }, (err, user) => {
    if(err) console.log(err)
    user.log.push({
      description: req.body.description,
      duration: Number(req.body.duration),
      date: date
    })
    user.save((err, updatedUser) => {
    if(err) console.log(err)
    })
      res.json({
      _id: id,
      username: user.username,
      date: date,
      duration: Number(req.body.duration),
      description: req.body.description
    })
      
  })
})

app.get("/api/users/:id/logs", (req, res) => {
  const id = req.params.id
  UserModel.findById({
    _id: id
  }, (err, user) => {
    if(err) console.log(err)
    let count = user.log.length
    res.json({
       _id: id,
      username: user.username,
      count: count,
      log: user.log
    })
  })
})


const listener = app.listen(process.env.PORT || 3000, () => {
  console.log('Your app is listening on port ' + listener.address().port)
})

And here is my models.js code

const mongoose = require('mongoose');

const UserSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  username: {
    type: String,
    required: true
  },
  from: String,
  to: String,
  count: Number,
  log: [
    {
      description: String,
      duration: Number,
      date: String,
      _id: false
    },
  ]
})

const UserModel = mongoose.model("UserModel", UserSchema)

module.exports = {UserModel}

Thank you very much in advance for your attention :slight_smile: