How to complete the challenge GET /todos (200) ? filter description regex

How to issue a GET request on a top level entity endpoint and filter todos by matching the description with a regular expression.

GET /todos (200) ? filter description regex

Issue a GET request on the /todos end point with a regular expression filter on description that returns todos with non-empty descriptions.

• description~=.*fixture.* means return todos where the description matches the regular expression
• most tools and browsers will encode any reserved characters for you when sending the request
• the response should contain at least one todo
• every returned todo should have a non-empty description
• every returned description should match the regular expression

Basic Instructions

• Create or update a todo so it has a description containing fixture
• Issue a GET request to end point "/todos"
  • https://apichallenges.eviltester.com/todos
• The request should have an X-CHALLENGER header to track challenge completion
• Add a regular expression filter:
  • https://apichallenges.eviltester.com/todos?description~=.*fixture.*
• The response status code should be 200 because the request is accepted
• Check that every returned description is non-empty and contains fixture

Try it now

If you need a matching todo, create one with a non-empty description containing fixture. See the solution.

POST /todos to create a regex filter fixture

Filter by regular expression:

GET /todos?description~=.*fixture.* to filter descriptions by regex

Example Request

> GET /todos?description~=.*fixture.* HTTP/1.1
> Host: apichallenges.eviltester.com
> User-Agent: rest-client
> X-CHALLENGER: x-challenger-guid
> Accept: application/json

Example Response

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Connection: close
< Content-Type: application/json
< X-Challenger: x-challenger-guid

Returned body:

{
  "todos": [
    {
      "id": 8,
      "title": "regex filter fixture",
      "doneStatus": false,
      "description": "created fixture for regex filter"
    }
  ]
}