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API Documentation

Use cases

This app Performs API CRUD operations on mongodb database.
    - Authorization/Generate access token
    - movies/theater - CRUD
    - comment on a specific movie - CRUD

Authorization

To authenticate an API request, you should provide your API token in the `Authorization` header.
All API requests require the use of a generated API token. You can find your API token, or generate a new one in the following endpoints.
Required `body` header data for *both*:
    - email
    - password

  • Create a New User - Generates a New Token

    POST /api/users/

  • Login - Get Your Token

    POST /api/users/login

API Endpoints

  • For Theaters:-

    Request Method Description
    /api/theaters GET Gets all theaters
    /api/theaters POST Creates a new theater
    /api/theaters/{theaterId} GET Gets a specific theater using ID
    /api/theaters/{theaterId} PUT Updates a theater if exists, create it if not
    /api/theaters/{theaterId} DELETE Deletes a specific theater using ID

  • For Movies:-

    Request Method Description
    /api/movies GET Gets all movies
    /api/movies POST Creates a new movie
    /api/movies/{movieId} GET Gets a specific movie using ID
    /api/movies/{movieId} PUT Updates a movie if exists, create it if not
    /api/movies/{movieId} DELETE Deletes a specific movie using ID

  • For Commenting on a movie:-

    Request Method Description
    /api/movies/{movieId}/comments GET Gets movie's all comments
    /api/movies/{movieId}/comments POST Creates a new comment on a movie
    /api/movies/{movieId}/comments/{commentId} GET Gets a movie's comment by ID
    /api/movies/{movieId}/comments/{commentId} PUT Updates a new comment
    /api/movies/{movieId}/comments/{commentId} DELETE Deletes a comment using ID

Response Format

Most of endpoints return the JSON representation of the resources created or edited.

{
  "message" : string,
  "success" : bool,
  "data"    : string
}

The message attribute contains a message commonly used to indicate errors.

The success attribute describes if the transaction was successful or not.

The data attribute contains any other associated with the response..

Used Status Codes

It returns the following status codes:

Status Code Description
200 OK
201 CREATED
401 AUTHENTICATION REQUIRED
404 NOT FOUND
405 METHOD NOT ALLOWED
500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR