Mongo Mini

Topics:

Databases
MongoDB
ORMs
Mongoose
Create/Read/Update/Delete operations

Description

You'll write a server that lets you create and read Bears through MongoDB. Much of the knowledge from Node and Express will carry over to this mini project, where you'll interface with a database in your route handlers.

Running the Project

Install MongoDB.
cd into your project directory.
Run npm install to download the dependencies.
Run mongod --dbpath data and keep it running in a separate terminal.
Write your implementation, as per the instructions below.
To test your application at any point, run npm start to start the server. Then, you can make requests to http://localhost:3000 in Postman or in your browser! To make POST requests, you'll need to use Postman. Craft the correct requests to test your implementation!

Instructions

Schema

Create a schema for the Bears collection. A schema is a description of the format of documents within a collection. In this case, each Bear is a document of the form:

{
  species: "American Black Bear",
  latinName: "Ursus americanus",
  createdAt: Mon Aug 14 2017 12:50:16 GMT-0700 (PDT)
}

In models.js, write the schema for the Bears collection. Make the field createdAt default to the current date.

`POST /bears`

When the client makes a POST request to /bears:

Ensure the client passes species and latinName parameters in the request body. If there's an error, respond with an appropriate status code, and send a JSON response of the form { error: "Some useful error message" }.
Create and save a new Bear document. If there's an error while saving, send that error as a JSON response, and set the status code to STATUS_SERVER_ERROR (Internal Server Error).
Otherwise, if everything is successful, send the Bear document as a JSON response.

`GET /bears`

When the client makes a GET request to /bears, read all the Bear documents from MongoDB as an array. Send that array as a JSON response to the client.

If there's an error in retrieving the documents, send that error to the client in a JSON response. Set the status code to STATUS_SERVER_ERROR (Internal Server Error), as the server couldn't fetch the documents for some reason.

`GET /bears/:id`

When the client makes a GET request to /bears/:id (remember, :id is a parameter embedded in the URL, not in the query-string):

Find the Bear document associated with the given id. If there's an error, send that error as a JSON response, and set the status code to STATUS_SERVER_ERROR (Internal Server Error).
Otherwise, if everything is successful, send the Bear document as a JSON response.

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