Cannot pass test 5 and 6 of APIS and microservices projects - Exercise Tracker

[ramaels]

Tell us what’s happening:
Hello All,

The following tests failed:

• test 5: You can make a GET request to /api/exercise/log with a parameter of userId=_id to retrieve a full exercise log of any user. The returned response will be the user object with a log array of all the exercises added. Each log item has the description , duration , and date properties.

• test 6: A request to a user’s log ( /api/exercise/log ) returns an object with a count property representing the number of exercises returned.

Here is my test output for these tests:

// GET /api/exercise/log?userId=604c70ee41091601ca5a72bb
{"_id":"604c70ee41091601ca5a72bb","username":"nesta1","count":2,"log":[{"description":"exercise 1","duration":10,"date":"Sat Mar 13 2021"},{"description":"exercise 1","duration":20,"date":"Sat Mar 13 2021"}]}

Here is the test output from the FreeCodeCamp example (https://exercise-tracker.freecodecamp.rocks/):

// GET /api/exercise/log?userId=6045e4e56c1ac605e6029037
{"_id":"6045e4e56c1ac605e6029037","username":"nesta8","count":5,"log":[{"description":"exercise 1","duration":1,"date":"Fri Jan 01 2021"},{"description":"exercise 1","duration":1,"date":"Fri Jan 01 2021"},{"description":"exercise 2","duration":1,"date":"Fri Jan 01 2021"},{"description":"exercise 2","duration":2,"date":"Fri Jan 01 2021"},{"description":"test","duration":10,"date":"Tue Oct 10 2000"}]}

Both outputs are similar.

Test 7 is a pass. How can it pass and test 5 and 6 fail?
You can add from , to and limit parameters to a /api/exercise/log request to retrieve part of the log of any user. from and to are dates in yyyy-mm-dd format. limit is an integer of how many logs to send back.

Your project link(s)

solution: https://boilerplate-project-exercisetracker.stephaneramael.repl.co

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.190 Safari/537.36.

Challenge: Exercise Tracker

Link to the challenge:

freeCodeCamp.org

Many thanks in advance,

[jenovs]

Line 53 - what happens when date is not provided?

[ramaels]

Hi Jenovs,

When date is not provided in the form, the current date is used.

//POST /api/exercise/add
{"_id":"604c70ee41091601ca5a72bb","username":"nesta1","date":"Sun Mar 14 2021","duration":20,"description":"exercise 1"}

[ramaels]

The code taking care of it is:

  if (req.body.date === '') req.body.date = new Date();
  else req.body.date = new Date(req.body.date);

[ramaels]

I use the following Schemas.

const logSchema = new Schema({
    description: { type: String, required: true },
    duration: { type: Number, required: true },
    date: Date
  });
const userSchema = new Schema({
  username: { type: String, required: true },
  log: [{type: logSchema, required: true}]

[jenovs]

@ramaels

if (req.body.date === '')

Are you sure that if the date is not provided this condition will be true?
Add console.log and check what is the value of data.

[ramaels]

I am not sure if I follow you about Add console.log and check what is the value ofdata ..

[ramaels]

I added the console.log.

  if (req.body.date === '') req.body.date = new Date();
  else req.body.date = new Date(req.body.date);
  console.log(req.body.date);

It shows:
2021-03-14T11:33:06.027Z

[jenovs]

That’s because you’re submitting via form which handles empty input as an empty string, but if you call api directly (what FCC tests do), date will be undefined.

[ramaels]

I was not aware or understood the way that FCC run the tests.

I will add the condition . It should be something like:

  if (req.body.date === '' || typeof req.body.date === 'undefined') req.body.date = new Date();
  else req.body.date = new Date(req.body.date);

[ramaels]

Hi jenovs,

It works! Thanks again for this insightful information. I will never stop learning.

[jenovs]

@ramaels

I was not aware or understood the way that FCC run the tests.

That’s the most common way you use an API. Learn about tool like Postman to test your APIs (https://www.postman.com/)

Also this:

  if (req.body.date === '' || typeof req.body.date === 'undefined') req.body.date = new Date();

could be reduced to:

if (!req.body.date) req.body.date = new Date();

[ramaels]

I will definitely read and learn more on the subject. Thanks for pointing this out to me.
I greatly appreciate it!

Thanks for the tip about reducing the code.

[c3llus]

hi, it seems like u passed test case #4.

can u help me with the output type and all that’s expected from test case #4?

any kind of help would mean a lot!

thank you!