coordinista-service

Tutorial: Find outfits based on the clothingItems property

This tutorial shows you how to use the clothingItems_like filter to return outfits in the service that use a specific clothing item.

This tutorial takes about 15 minutes to complete.

Prerequisites

NOTE: Ensure that the json-server version that you installed is 0.17.4 or older, or the like filter does not render results.

Find outfits based on the clothingItems property

Use the GET method and the clothingItems_like filter to retrieve all outfits with the same clothingItems property.

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

To find outfits based on the clothingItems propery:

  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: GET
    • URL: /outfits?clothingItems_like=backpack
    • Headers:
      • Content-Type: application/json
  5. In the Postman app, click Send to make the request.
  6. Watch for the response body, which should generate all outfits with backpacks in the clothingItems property:
[
    {
        "name": "mountain hiking outfit",
        "season": "winter",
        "event": "outdoors",
        "description": "Hiking? In the winter? Extremely unlikely but not impossible.",
        "clothingItems": "long-sleeved shirt, waterproof pants, hiking boots, beanie, backpack",
        "id": 1
    },
    {
        "name": "picnic outfit",
        "season": "spring",
        "event": "outdoors",
        "description": "Cottage-core, but make it practical.",
        "clothingItems": "long-sleeved shirt, denim jeans, sneakers, backpack",
        "id": 4
    }
]

To add an outfit to the service, refer to Post a new outfit.

To add a clothing item to an existing outfit, refer to Add a new clothing item.

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