API Testing Challenge - How To - POST todos 201

This post and video shows how to complete the challenge POST /todos (201) to create a todo item in the application using Insomnia.

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POST /todos (201)

Issue a POST request to successfully create a todo

POST request will make changes to the system
201 means an item created
We are using this request to create a todo item
Perform a GET first to see what the format of the message is
Add a Content-Type of application/json to tell the server what format the message body is

Basic Instructions

Issue a POST request to end point “/todos”
- if running locally that would be
  - http://localhost:4567/todos
- if running in the cloud that would be
  - https://apichallenges.herokuapp.com/todos
The request should have an X-CHALLENGER header to track challenge completion
Use the format for the todo which you see in the GET response
Do not include an ‘id’ in the request because that is added automatically by the system
The response status code should be 201 because the todo is created
IF you get a different response code, check the body of the message because you made have made a typo. Read the error message in the response to guide you.

Insomnia Details

> POST /todos HTTP/1.1
> Host: apichallenges.herokuapp.com
> User-Agent: insomnia/2020.3.3
> X-CHALLENGER: x-challenger-guid
> Content-Type: application/json
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 108

|    {
|       "title": "create todo process payroll",
|       "doneStatus": true,
|       "description": ""
|     }

< HTTP/1.1 201 Created
< Connection: close
< Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 16:20:40 GMT
< Content-Type: application/json
< Location: todos/453
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Access-Control-Allow-Headers: *
< X-Challenger: x-challenger-guid
< Server: Jetty(9.4.z-SNAPSHOT)
< Via: 1.1 vegur