Complete MongoDB Tutorial #20 - Handling POST Requests

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[dandendrasingh]

Hi shuan looks like the video number in title is wrong it should be 20. Thanks for all the videos

[ubarjaktarev]

Here's the raw JSON (the one posted below didn't work for me for some reason):
{
"title": "The Final Empire",
"author": "Brandon Sanderson",
"rating": 9,
"pages": 420,
"genres": ["fantasy", "magic"],
"reviews": [
{ "name": "Shaun", "body": "Couldn't put this book down."},
{ "name": "Chun-li", "body": "Love it."}
]
}

[BenNouba]

Thanks for the great tutorial.
If anyone faced the problem that when making a post request it just makes a new document with only the id, this is because in postman you need to change (body > raw) from text into json

[alexpiano]

I like to use async await:
exports.postBook = async (req, res) => {
const newBook = req.body;
let db = getDb();
try {
const result = await

} catch (error) {
res.status(500).json({ msg: 'Could not post new object.' });
}
};

[jawadshaikh]

your way of teaching is awesome, love from PAKISTAN ❤️❤️❤️

[Mong-Yun_Chen_]

4:14
{
　"title": "The Final Empire",
"author": "Brandon Sanderson",
"ratinig": 9,
"pages": 420,
"genres": [
"fantasy",
"magic"
],
"reviews": [
{
"name": "Shaun",
"body": "Couldn't put this book down."
},
{
"name": "Chun-Li",
"body": "Love it."
}
]
},

[darkmojojojo]

@The Net Ninja Great stuff. The course lesson should be Tutorial #20 but it says #10. Thank you :D.

[okeyshourovroy]

Please also include mongodb aggregation framework with mongooses or mongodb driver (filtering and sorting sub document arrays) geojson. It would be very helpful 🙏🙏

[aldotugasumb]

what about using docker? how can we configure that?

[mathewdavies]

If anyone is having trouble with the post request failing, I have a possible solution.

If your request body is not being received, it is most likely because newer versions of Express don't include the body parser automatically. To test if it is the body is the problem, you can console log the req.body to see if it comes up as null in the terminal upon request.

Take the following steps to correct:

- Stop your server and Install the body parser - npm install body-parser
- Import the body parser at the top of the file - const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
- Enable the body parser for the app, just below the declaration of the app - app.use(bodyParser.json());
- Retry your request and the body parser should convert the Json and solve the problem

This resolved the issue for me.

[waxinggibbons]

I only add the new _id-s to the books collection without the data 😖

[stephanodev]

amazing tutorial man! you have a typo in ur title, it says this is tutorial #10

[apxmvrc]

I am facing a problem in post request...When I add data using post query, for some reason the query keeps on processing infinitely...I am using async as well but still the problem remains the same (I am using thunderclient vscode extension for requests)....Please help!

[gryp]

{
"title": "The Final Empire",
"author": "Brandon Sanderson",
"rating": 9,
"pages": 420,
"genres": [
"fantasy",
"magic"
],
"reviews": [
{
"name": "Shaun",
"body": "Couldn't put this book down."
},
{
"name": "Chun-Li",
"body": "Love it."
}
]
}

[tundejoseph]

Hello Shaun, I've been trying to reach you on all platforms, I just paid for the Modern JavaScript on your website, I've having trouble downloading the videos to my pc. Is there a way you can help? Thanks

[mahmoudakrm]

it hurts so much to start your video with "alright then" without saying "gang"