How to complete the challenge PUT /todos/{id} (400)

How to use a PUT request and fail to create a todo item in the application using PUT, receiving a 400 status response code. The request is invalid because IDs are auto generated and cannot be specified during creation.

POST /todos/{id} (400)

Issue a PUT request with an ID and fail to create a todo

• PUT request will make changes to the system
• 400 means an issue with the request
• We are trying to use this request to create a todo item so all mandatory details are necessary
• We are including an id, that does not exist, which we want to assign to the todo item
• Add a Content-Type of application/json to tell the server what format the message body is

Basic Instructions

• Issue a GET request on "/todos" to identify an ID that does not exist
• Issue a PUT request to end point "/todos/{id}" where {id} is a specific id that we want to create
  • https://apichallenges.eviltester.com/todos/{id}
• The request should have an X-CHALLENGER header to track challenge completion
• Use the format for the todo which you see in a GET response, without the ID field
• Do not include an 'id' in the request body because that is added automatically by the system
• Do include an id in the URL to try and specify the id we want to create
• The response status code should be 400 because the request is invalid for this API
• Check the error message to make sure it is for the expected reason "Cannot create todo with PUT due to Auto fields id"
• 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.

NOTE: For some APIs this would be an acceptable thing to do. This particular API has logic to prevent creating items with specific IDs and this challenge helps test for it.

Example Request

> POST /todos/300 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/1.1 400 Bad Request
< 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

|    {
|     "errorMessages": [
|          "Cannot create todo with PUT due to Auto fields id"
|     ]
|    }