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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10, Third Edition

You're reading from   RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10, Third Edition Learn to create robust RESTful web services with Node.js, MongoDB, and Express.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623322
Length 178 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Valentin Bojinov Valentin Bojinov
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. REST – What You Did Not Know 2. Getting Started with Node.js FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Typical Web API 4. Using NoSQL Databases 5. Restful API Design Guidelines 6. Implementing a Full Fledged RESTful Service 7. Preparing a RESTful API for Production 8. Consuming a RESTful API 9. Securing the Application 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Linking

In the Linked data section of the previous chapter, we defined that if an item in the catalog has an image assigned to it, this will be indicated with an HTTP header named Image-URL.

Let's modify the findItemById function in the V2 of the catalog. We will use the GridFS's existing function to check whether there is an image bound to the selected item; in case there is an image assigned to the item, its URL will be available to the response with the Image-Url header:

exports.findItemById = function (gfs, request, response) {
CatalogItem.findOne({itemId: request.params.itemId}, function(error, result) {
if (error) {
console.error(error);
response.writeHead(500, contentTypePlainText);
return;
} else {
if (!result) {
if (response != null) {
response.writeHead(404, contentTypePlainText...
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