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Chapter: Days 97-99: Building JSON APIs
Lecture: Exercising the API
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Alright, we have the stubs for our APIs in place.
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And we're going to start focusing on
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some of these that are easy.
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For example, this all_rolls, this one is really easy.
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top_scores, somewhat easy.
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play_round, we're going to save that one for later.
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But I've already sort of configured
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Postman to deal with this.
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So Postman is cool because you can create these groups,
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like here I have Online RPS,
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and here are all the operations,
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and you can see GET, PUT, POST, POST, GET, GET, GET.
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So if I go get_user, we have api/game/users/mark,
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and you can see down here would find user Mark.
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Come over here and say create_user,
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the body's already set,
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here's the user that didn't exist yet.
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But if we do this,
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response is would create user 200 okay.
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So what we're going to do is we're going to
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go through and work on these.
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Let's start with all_rolls.
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Right now we're getting would create all_rolls.
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I think we're going to start knocking out
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some of these simple ones, game_status, all_rolls,
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new game, create user, these types of things.
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And then the play_round and the top_scores
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those are a little bit trickier.
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But you'll see that we can configure these in Postman
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like for example, this play_round is going to pass the body,
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here's the game id, here's the user, here's the roll,
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alright, so we're going to want to make sure
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we have a user, we could create a user over here,
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want to make sure we have, Michael for example,
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so that other one would work.
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Things like that. So we're going to use Postman to exercise
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and get our API just right,
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and then, then we're going to go write
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the client side code that consumes it.
