Building the Answer Routes

Our routes are all written and 0:00 we've implemented all the HTTP verbs we plan to handle. 0:02 However, there is a problem. 0:05 There isn't much code to handle the actions outside of what we planned for. 0:07 In the next video, we'll see how to handle the common errors that might come up. 0:12 When a request is sent to our API, 0:18 it would be nice to get a little more information about it, and 0:20 the details about the response the server has to that request. 0:24 In other words, 0:29 we want an automated logger, something that logs out useful information. 0:30 Let's install another piece of middleware to help with that. 0:35 We can use a module called Morgan. 0:39 We can configure Morgan to log HTTP status codes as well as the routes for us. 0:42 In the terminal, run npm install 0:48 --save morgan@~1.7. 0:54 When that's done, we can move over to our app.js 0:59 file in our text editor and include it. 1:04 Let's put a required statement with our other required statements at the top 1:12 of the code to keep our code organized. 1:17 Let's call this logger, and require morgan. 1:21 Now we can connect it to our app with use, passing in dev to our logger function. 1:35 This will configure the middleware to give us colorful status codes for 1:52 our API's responses. 1:56 Feel free to check out the documentation from Morgan in the teacher's notes. 1:59 Let's build our answers routes now. 2:03 When we go to test them later, we'll see what Morgan does in action. 2:06 Going back to our routes.js file in the text editor, 2:12 let's enter our next route that we planned. 2:15 We planned a route to create an answer. 2:19 This route is POST 2:36 /questions/:id/answers. 2:40 We plan to use the post method for this route. 2:49 When implementing this route handler, remember to leave off /questions. 2:53 Our router is already mounted to questions. 3:03 Let's modify the response we say when we're reposting to /answers. 3:12 And return the questionId, too. 3:20 The next route we can handle is the PUT request to a specific answer. 3:30 As we build this route, You might notice a problem. 3:54 The problem is, 4:09 is that we have two parameters in the URL that have the same name. 4:10 This won't work. 4:15 One will override the other. 4:17 We need to give them different names. 4:19 Let's go back and 4:21 add updates to all the routes with the question ID with a new parameter of qID. 4:22 We can call the answers ID, aID 4:58 Let's copy the handler from the post route and 5:11 paste it into the put route and modify it with the appropriate response. 5:14 And have it respond with the answer ID too. 5:25 With the request params aID 5:34 We also need a delete handler for this route. 5:46 This will delete a specific answer. 5:50 Let's update the method we call from put to delete, then delete the req.body. 6:08 And finally update the response text. 6:21 Last of all, we'll create the routes for voting on answers. 6:28 Let's copy and paste this DELETE route. 6:34 And change delete to post. 6:41 Let's describe what URLs we want handled by this route. 6:45 The POST route, 6:50 Where we can upvote, And downvote. 6:55 These are to vote on a specific answer. 7:10 The URLs are identical except for the vote-up or the vote-down at the end. 7:16 We can capture these two possibilities with a parameter, and 7:24 we can use one route for both. 7:28 We can capture only part of the string we want. 7:39 So let's grab the up or down from the last part of the route. 7:43 We can call the parameter dir for direction. 7:49 Now let's modify the response 7:52 in the POST request, To 7:58 /vote-" and then 8:02 the req.params.dir. 8:09 Let's also include the vote down here at the bottom too. 8:18 Now let's test our routes out. 8:29 Switch over to the terminal, stop the server if it's running, and 8:32 clear the screen. 8:35 Now start up the server again. 8:38 In Postman, 8:40 let's send a POST request to 8:42 localhost:3000/questions/6/answers 8:48 with the body prop value. 8:59 We see that works. 9:14 In the Postman results window, we see the response that we constructed. 9:15 Now let's switch back to the terminal to see our new logging in action. 9:20 Our Morgan logging middleware has given us the HTTP verb, 9:27 the URL requested, the color coded status code 200, among other things. 9:33 Let's change our HTTP method to PUT. 9:43 Then change the URL 9:49 to localhost:3000/questions/9/answers/33, 9:52 with the same JSON body. 10:00 Hit Send, and let's see what happens. 10:06 We get the correct response. 10:13 Make sure the questionId is 9 and that the answerId is 33. 10:17 Now let's send a DELETE to the same URL. 10:23 Check the response is what you expect, that it's a DELETE 10:28 request with the questionId of 9 and the answerId of 33. 10:33 Finally, let's send a POST request too. 10:39 Localhost:3000/questions/5/answers/78/vot- 10:44 e-up. 10:53 See that the route was read correctly. 11:00 Let's check vote-down. 11:03 That works too. 11:10