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Tom Elliott
Tom Elliott
4,272 Points
Posted by Tom Elliott
Tom Elliott
4,272 Points

/blog/[name] gives me the full object, not one of the objects within the object

I'm on the Express Basics 'Requests and the request object' video about 7 minutes in, and when I go to a website at /blog/[the name of the blog title] it gives me the entire object (all 3 objects from the posts.json we created) instead of one of the objects. I know logically it should happen as it does in the video, and can't figure out why it's not. Everything has been saved, and we're running it with nodemon so it updates automatically.

1 Answer

Tom Elliott
Tom Elliott
4,272 Points
Tom Elliott
Tom Elliott
4,272 Points

I figured out the answer to my own question. I had added #1 from the first part of the exercise (:id), and instead of deleting I started a new .get for the second part of the exercise (:title). When I took out #1 I got the correct response.

// #1: app.get('/blog/:id', function(req, res){ res.send(posts); });

// #2: app.get('/blog/:title', function(req, res){ var title = req.params.title; var post = posts[title]; res.send(post); });