Test node movie REST API - mickeyr007/node-movie GitHub Wiki

Install Postman - REST Client on Chrome

Install Postman Client

After running the following command on the terminal for node app

 node server.js

You should get the following line in return

Movie REST API is running on port  8080/api

Following are the supported REST API instructions

Route HTTP Verb Description Data
/api/movies GET Get all the movies.
/api/movies/:actor_name GET Get all the movies with actor name.
/api/movies POST Create a movie.

title Title of the movie

description Description of the movie

producer Producer of the movie

actors Actors of the movie (can be comma(,) sepereated for multiple
/api/movies/:movie_id GET Get a single movie.
/api/movies/:movie_id PUT Update a movie with new info.

title = Title of the movie

title Title of the movie

description Description of the movie

producer Producer of the movie

actors Actors of the movie (can be comma(,) sepereated for multiple
/api/movies/:movie_id DELETE Delete a movie.

Notice that we are sending the name data as x-www-form-urlencoded. This will send all of our data to the Node server as query strings.

You could also use the following line on curl to submit movies

curl -X POST -H "Cache-Control: no-cache" -H "Postman-Token: 3db4cb2b-1f73-2d4f-1a99-5035fc17b1f2" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -d 'title=Test+Movie&description=Description+for+the+movie&producer=Producer+Name&actors=actor1%2Cactor2' http://localhost:8080/api/movies
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