Help me to understand how to create a route please

Questions and Answers
1

Hello,

I am trying to set a route. I am following a tutorial. Everything is happening in a folder inside the api folder.

Route folder contains post.js file :

'use strict';

/**
 * post router.
 */

const { createCoreRouter } = require('@strapi/strapi').factories;

module.exports = createCoreRouter('api::post.post', {
    method: 'GET',
    path: '/api/posts/:id/comments',
    handler: 'posts.comments'
});

Controllers folder contains an other post.js file :

'use strict';

/**
 *  post controller
 */

const { createCoreController } = require('@strapi/strapi').factories;

module.exports = createCoreController('api::post.post', ({strapi}) => ({
    comments: async (ctx) => {
        return "Hello"
    }
}));

Finally, when I tested URL : http://localhost:1337/api/posts/:id/comments; I have :

{
    "data": null,
    "error": {
        "status": 404,
        "name": "NotFoundError",
        "message": "Not Found",
        "details": {}
    }
}

What did I do wrong ? Is something missing ?

2

change your post.js to sth like this

module.exports = {
    routes: [
        { // Path defined with a URL parameter
            method: 'GET',
            path: '/location/top',
            handler: 'controller.findTopLocation',
            config: {
                auth: false,
            },
        },
        { // Path defined with a URL parameter
            method: 'GET',
            path: '/theme/top',
            handler: 'controller.findTopTheme',
            config: {
                auth: false,
            },
        },
        { // Path defined with a URL parameter
            method: 'GET',
            path: '/theme/find',
            handler: 'controller.findThemeByName',
            config: {
                auth: false,
            },
        }
    ]
}

Then in the controller folder make another file and call it controller.js with something like this

module.exports = ({strapi})=>{

  return {

    async findTopLocation(ctx, next) { // GET api/location/top

      try {

        let limit = ctx.query.limit 

          ctx.body -> use this to return data

      } catch (err) {

        return ctx.internalServerError('Error',err) ;

      }

    },

    async findTopTheme(ctx, next) {

    },

    async findThemeByName(ctx, next) {

    }

  }

};
4

Strapi is bugging… I don’t understand what I have write instead of “use this to return data” : “->” is not accepted. Also, “next” and “limit” are not used.

1 Like
5

Those are comments and examples I added to how to handle incoming requests.
Use this instead of those lines


 ctx.body ={ test:123}
6

Ok, thank you. I understand better. :slight_smile: I didn’t get the right result but at least my app didn’t crash.

This is the code I have in post.js file inside routes folder. Is it correct ?

module.exports = {
  routes: [
      { // Path defined with a URL parameter
          method: 'GET',
          path: '/api/posts/:id/comments',
          handler: 'post.comments',
          config: {
              auth: false,
          },
      }
  ]
}
7

This file looks fine. Keep in mind that your endpoint will be
api/api/posts/:id/comments

Also I guess we already have a commemts plugin in strapi marketplace. So maybe it has conflict with it.
Also post.comment controller should return something.

8

Also make sure to check your contoller’s access level in the settings, under user permissions. Make it public to be able to access it without logging in