Request handlers

A basic GET request handler for the /entries route registered in the EntryController could look like this:

import { Controller, Get } from '@nestjs/common';

@Controller('entries')
export class EntryController {
    @Get()
    index(): Entry[] {
        const entries: Entry[] = this.entriesService.findAll();
        return entries;
    }

The @Controller('entries') decorator tells Nest.js to add an entries prefix to all routes registered in the class. This prefix is optional. An equivalent way to setup this route would be as follows:

import { Controller, Get } from '@nestjs/common';

@Controller()
export class EntryController {
    @Get('entries')
    index(): Entry[] {
        const entries: Entry[] = this.entriesService.findAll();
        return entries;
    }

Here, we don’t specify a prefix in the @Controller() decorator, but instead use the full route path in the @Get('entries') decorator.

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