Solved: Nodejs Baas Update/Delete

sidd-harth · 06-22-2016 09:12 PM

Hi guys, I am working on Nodejs to communicate with BaaS. I have been following this doc. It mentions about GET and POST operations. I would also like to do PUT and DELETE operations.

I have an idea about how to proceed but if there is any reference doc/github regarding that would be great..

anilsr

@Barahalikar Siddharth ,

It should be simple & straight forward, For more reference check express documentation on routes,

app.put('/profile', function(req, res) {
     // Your logic here when a PUT request is made to /profile end point
});

app.delete('/profile', function(req, res) {
     // Your logic here when a DELETE request is made to /profile end point
});

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ksprashu

Hi @Barahalikar Siddharth,

Q; Are you looking for information on how to write put / delete routes in nodejs, i.e. using the http module or the express module?

A; In this case @Anil Sagar's answer above is what you should be looking at.

Q: Or are you looking at information on how to prepare put / delete requests to baas?

A: Construct the URL so that it points to the actual entity, by using the entity UUID or entity name at the end.

Eg:

http://api.usergrid.com/user/org/collection/entity_name

or

http://api.usergrid.com/user/org/collection/uuid

In case of PUT calls, send in the new payload / JSON that has to be updated into the specified entity.

In case of DELETE calls, don't send in anything.

Q: Or are you looking at information on how to actually send the http request from node to BaaS?

A: Please use the request module of node.js to send the correct http requests to BaaS.

Eg: to delete an entity from BaaS.

const request = require('request');
var options = {  
  uri: 'http://api.usergrid.com/user/org/collection/entity_name',
  method: 'DELETE',
};

request(options, function (err, resp, body) {
  // handle the response from the request
});