How to complete the challenge POST /todos (400) title too long

How to complete the challenge POST /todos (400) title too long to fail to create a todo item in the application due to not passing validation for the title.

POST /todos (400) title too long

Issue a POST request to create a todo but fail validation on the title field

• POST request will create a todo if the details are valid when using the /todos end point
• 400 is an error code meaning that we supplied invalid details
• In this case we are asked to make a mistake with the title field so that it fails validation on the server side
• The API Documentation for the todos endpoint says that a title Maximum length allowed is 50

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
• The content-type in the message should be application/json because we are sending a JSON payload
• The Payload should have an error in the title. A valid title is Maximum of 50 characters so if we create a title with 51 characters it should fail validation and pass the challenge.

    {
        "title": "this title has far too many characters to validate.",
        "doneStatus": true,
        "description": "should trigger a 400 error"
    }

• 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: Maximum allowable length exceeded for title - maximum allowed is 50"
  ]
}

Hints:

• when testing for field lengths CounterString tools can be useful to generate strings of the exact length required

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": "this title has far too many characters to validate.",
|       "doneStatus": true,
|       "description": "should trigger a 400 error"
|     }

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: Maximum allowable length exceeded for title - maximum allowed is 50"
  ]
}