coordinista-service

Tutorial: Add a new clothing item

This tutorial shows you the operations to add a new clothing resource as well as the operations to add that new item to an existing outfit.

This tutorial takes about 20 minutes to complete.

Prerequisites

• Complete the Before you begin topic to ensure that you have the service installed on your system.
• If you want to add a new clothing item to an outfit resource, ensure that the outfit resource already exists in the service.

Add a new clothing item to the service

Use the POST method and a new clothing resource to your service.

The {base_url} for the service is http://localhost:3000.

To add a new clothing item:

1. From GitHub desktop, open your terminal to access your fork of the Coordinista repository in the command line.

2. If your local service is not running yet, start it with the following command:

    cd <your-github-workspace>/coordinista-service/api
    json-server -w coordinista-db.json
   

3. Open the Postman app on your desktop.
4. In the Postman app, create a new request with the following values:
   • METHOD: POST
   • URL: /clothing
   • Headers:
     • Content-Type: application/json
     • Accept: application/json

5. Add the properties of your new clothing item to the Request Body. For example:

    [
        {
            "name": "silk skirt",
            "type": "bottoms",
            "color": "red",
            "description": "mysterious",
            "outfits": "cocktail party outfit"
        }
    ]
   

6. In the Postman app, click Send to make the request.

7. Watch for the response body, which should generate your new clothing item with a unique id.

    [
        {
            "name": "silk skirt",
            "type": "bottoms",
            "color": "red",
            "description": "mysterious",
            "outfits": "cocktail party outfit",
            "id": "d5dc"
        }
    ]
   

You have successfully added a silk skirt to your clothing resources.

Add a new clothing item to an existing outfit

To add a new clothing item to an outfit resource:

1. In the Postman app, create a new request with the following values:
   • METHOD: PATCH
   • URL: /outfits/{id}
   • Headers:
     • Content-Type: application/json
     • Accept: application/json

2. Update the existing outfit’s clothingItem parameters in the request body:

    [
        {
   
            "clothingItems": ["little black dress, strappy heels, pendant necklace,silk skirt" ]
        }
    ]
   

   Remember to keep the existing clothingItems in your request.

3. Click Send to make the request.
4. Ensure that the response body displays the updated outfits resource with the new clothingItem that you added.

[
    {
    "name": "cocktail party outfit",
    "season": "spring",
    "event": "formal",
    "description": "Something you can wear at a fancy work event and at the club.",
    "clothingItems": [
        "little black dress, strappy heels, pendant necklace,silk skirt"
    ],
    "id": "5"
}
]

You have created a new clothing resource, and added that clothing item to your outfit resource.

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