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JavaScript Build a REST API With Express Completing and Testing the API Next Steps

Posted by jay aljoe
jay aljoe
4,113 Points

I found that if you replace any char in the qID or aID with another char, the entire server breaks. How to handle that?

in Postman or Browser if you send a Get request to a specific question with qID and you replace any char in the question id with any other char, the server breaks. So, Im sure we can handle that but what is the proper way to do so?

Putra Aryotama
Putra Aryotama
36,050 Points

Can you post your code?

2 Answers

Putra Aryotama
Putra Aryotama
36,050 Points

you're not defining, setting status code, and passing the error correctly Check your routes.js file

on lines 10-14 ('qID' param middleware):

if (!question) {
    error = new Error("Not Found");
    res.status = 404;
    return next(err);
}

should be:

if (!question) {
    let err = new Error("Not Found");
    err.status = 404;
    return next(err);
}

same goes for 'aID' param middleware in line on lines 24-28.

jay aljoe
jay aljoe
4,113 Points
jay aljoe
jay aljoe
4,113 Points

this is the link to repo https://github.com/jay51/qa-express-api/tree/version3 and checkout branch: version3