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Margee Bajpai
3,890 PointsI want to get record based on title so I have passed parameter as /blog/:title' but it is populating whole json file ?
I have posts.json file. after hitting http://localhost:3000/blog/santosh it is returning whole array of Object and not only single record app.get('/blog/:title',function(req,res){ res.send(posts); });
2 Answers
Sebastian H
19,905 PointsHi Margee,
In the example video Huston does a couple of things to return a specific part of the posts JSON file. I've commented his code below to explain it but can help out further if you post the full version of your code :)
var posts = require('./mock/posts.json');
app.get('/blog/:title?', function(req, res){
/*this title variable is equal to the url te user inputs*/
var title = req.params.title;
/*if the url doesn't match any blog title, return 503*/
if (title === undefined) {
res.status(503);
res.send("This page is under construction!");
} else {
/*otherwise, if there is a match
pass the title string (received in url - in your case "santosh") to the posts json object*/
var post = posts[title];
res.send(post);
}
});
Margee Bajpai
3,890 PointsMargee Bajpai
3,890 Points```Sebastian : Thanks for quick reply My Posts.json file look like this. posts.json [{ "id": 1, "title":"santosh", "body":"<h1> Hello</h1>" }, { "id":2, "title":"ganesh", "body":"<h1> Konichiwa </h1>" }, { "id": 3, "title":"kiran", "body":"<h1> Hallo </h1>"
}]
app.js
'use strict';
var express= require('express'); var posts=require('C:/Users/santosh/Desktop/Node.js/express/express-basics/mock/posts.json'); var app= express(); app.set('view engine','jade'); app.set('views',__dirname +'/templates'); app.get('/',function (req,res) { //res.send('<h1> I Love Express</h1>'); res.render('index'); }); app.get('/blog',function(req,res) { res.send(posts); }); app.get('/blog/:title',function(req,res){ debugger; var title=req.params.title; if(title===undefined) { res.status(503); res.send("This page is under construction!"); } else{ var post=posts[title]; res.send(posts); }
}); app.listen(3000,function(){ console.log('The frontend server is running on 3000 port'); });