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How to complete the challenge POST /todos (201)

How to use a POST request to create a todo item in the application and receive a 201 status response code.

POST /todos (201)

Issue a POST request to successfully create a todo

• POST request will make changes to the system
• 201 means an item created
• We are using this request to create a todo item
• Perform a GET first to see what the format of the message is
• Add a Content-Type of application/json to tell the server what format the message body is

Basic Instructions

• Issue a POST request to end point "/todos"
  • https://apichallenges.eviltester.com/todos
• The request should have an X-CHALLENGER header to track challenge completion
• Use the format for the todo which you see in the GET response
• Do not include an 'id' in the request because that is added automatically by the system
• The response status code should be 201 because the todo is created
• IF you get a different response code, check the body of the message because you made have made a typo. Read the error message in the response to guide you.

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: 108

|    {
|       "title": "create todo process payroll",
|       "doneStatus": true,
|       "description": ""
|     }

Example Response

< HTTP/1.1 201 Created
< Connection: close
< Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 16:20:40 GMT
< Content-Type: application/json
< Location: todos/453
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Access-Control-Allow-Headers: *
< X-Challenger: x-challenger-guid
< Server: Jetty(9.4.z-SNAPSHOT)
< Via: 1.1 vegur

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