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JavaScript REST APIs with Express Create, Read, Update, Delete Edit A Quote

Patrick Perkins
Patrick Perkins
14,619 Points
Posted by Patrick Perkins
Patrick Perkins
14,619 Points

Getting 404 in Postman on PUT request.

The route is valid in Postman on a GET request because the json quote is returned. However, when changing to a PUT request and sending json in the body, I get a 404 error but am not receiving the error message "Quote not found" from the code.

Here is my code:

app.put('quotes/:id', async (req,res) => {
  try {
    const quote = await records.getQuote(req.params.id);
    if (quote) {
      quote.quote = req.body.quote;
      quote.author = req.body.author;

      await records.updateQuote(quote);
      res.status(204).end();
    } else {
      res.status(404).json({message: "Quote not found"})
    }
    records.updateQuote(quote)
  } catch (err) {
    res.status(500).json({message: err.message});
  }
})
Patrick Perkins
Patrick Perkins
14,619 Points
Patrick Perkins
Patrick Perkins
14,619 Points

Gotta love coding. I noticed I didn't place a "/" in front of my route.

2 Answers

Zimri Leijen
Zimri Leijen
11,835 Points
Zimri Leijen
Zimri Leijen
11,835 Points 
app.put('/quotes/:id', async (req,res) => { // you were missing the '/' before quotes
  try {
    const quote = await records.getQuote(req.params.id);
    if (quote) {
      quote.quote = req.body.quote;
      quote.author = req.body.author;

      await records.updateQuote(quote);
      res.status(204).end();
    } else {
      res.status(404).json({message: "Quote not found"})
    }
    records.updateQuote(quote)
  } catch (err) {
    res.status(500).json({message: err.message});
  }
})
Pablo Calvo
Pablo Calvo
13,044 Points
Pablo Calvo
Pablo Calvo
13,044 Points

Same happened here... lol, thanks, been 3 days stuck looking at it