Happy Path: Endpoint #4 Add Favorites - POST /api/v1/favorites

[ajpulzone]

Adding Recipes to a Favorite List

Functionality to add recipes to a favorited list for a particular user can be done with the following request.

Request:

POST /api/v1/favorites
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json

Send in body (raw, JSON)
{
    "api_key": "jgn983hy48thw9begh98h4539h4",
    "country": "thailand",
    "recipe_link": "https://www.tastingtable.com/.....",
    "recipe_title": "Crab Fried Rice (Khaao Pad Bpu)"
}

Response:

{
    "success": "Favorite added successfully"
}

Requirements:

• This POST endpoint should NOT call your endpoint like /api/v1/favorites?country=thailand,recipe_link="https://www.tastingtable.com/....."&recipe_title="Crab Fried Rice (Khaao Pad Bpu)"&api_key=jgn983hy48thw9begh98h4539h4p. You must send a JSON payload in the body of the request
  - in Postman, under the address bar, click on “Body”, select “raw”, which will show a dropdown that probably says “Text” in it, choose “JSON” from the list
  - this is a hard requirement to pass this endpoint!
• If the api_key is invalid (no user with that api key), an appropriate 400-level status code should be returned, as well as a message explaining what went wrong.
• If the api_key is valid, create a favorite for the user with that api key.
• A successful request creates a Favorite for that user in the database, and returns a 201 status code.
• Your Favorites Table can store country, recipe_link and recipe_title, as well as a foreign key for user. (One to many relationship between User and Favorites)

Wireframes:

[ajpulzone]

1/16/23 8:30pm

Working in postman, but testing is HIGHLY inadequate.

However, response in postman is what we expect. AJP