How To - GET todos id 404

This post and video shows how to complete the challenge GET /todos/id 404 using Insomnia.

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GET /todos/id (404)

Issue a GET request on the /todos/{id} end point for a todo that does not exist

• This will show you a 404 status code in the API response
• 404 status code means Not Found
• The {id} means, replace this with the id of a non-existant todo item

Basic Instructions

• Issue a GET request to end point “/todos/{id}”
  • if running locally that would be
    • http://localhost:4567/todos/{id}
  • if running in the cloud that would be
    • https://apichallenges.herokuapp.com/todos/{id}
• The request should have an X-CHALLENGER header
• The response status code should be 404 because {id} does not exist
• an error message should be shown in the response body

Insomnia Details

> GET /todos/20 HTTP/1.1
> Host: apichallenges.herokuapp.com
> User-Agent: insomnia/2020.3.3
> X-CHALLENGER: x-challenger-guid
> Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
< Connection: close
< Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:53:54 GMT
< Content-Type: application/json
< X-Challenger: x-challenger-guid
< Server: Jetty(9.4.z-SNAPSHOT)
< Via: 1.1 vegur

Example Response

{
  "errorMessages": [
    "Could not find an instance with todos/20"
  ]
}

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