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How to complete the challenge POST /todos (400)
How to complete the challenge POST /todos (400)
to fail to create a todo item in the application due to not passing validation.
POST /todos (400)
Issue a POST request to create a todo but fail validation on the
doneStatus
field
POST
request will create a todo if the details are valid when using the/todos
end point400
is an error code meaning that we supplied invalid details- In this case we are asked to make a mistake with the
doneStatus
field so that it fails validation server side i.e.doneStatus="bob"
Basic Instructions
- Issue a
POST
request to end point "/todos"http://apichallenges.eviltester.com/todos
- The request should have an
X-CHALLENGER
header to track challenge completion - The
content-type
in the message should beapplication/json
because we are sending a JSON payload - The Payload should have an error in the
doneStatus
. A validdoneStatus
istrue
orfalse
so if we send in a String like"bob"
it should fail validation.
{
"title": "create new todo",
"doneStatus": "bob",
"description": "created via insomnia"
}
- The response status code should be
400
because the request is invalid - The body of the response will be an error message array with a single message
{
"errorMessages": [
"Failed Validation: doneStatus should be BOOLEAN"
]
}
Example Request
> POST /todos HTTP/1.1
> Host: apichallenges.eviltester.com
> User-Agent: rest-client
> X-CHALLENGER: x-challenger-guid
> Content-Type: application/json
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 116
| {
| "title": "create new todo",
| "doneStatus": "bob",
| "description": "created via insomnia"
| }
Example Response
< HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
< Connection: close
< Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:23:12 GMT
< Content-Type: application/json
< X-Challenger: x-challenger-guid
< Server: Jetty(9.4.z-SNAPSHOT)
< Via: 1.1 vegur
Returned body:
{
"errorMessages": [
"Failed Validation: doneStatus should be BOOLEAN"
]
}
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