I'm having a bit of a struggle with updating my mongodb database with new records. The database consists of fields of exercises that are arrays and when I do a PUT header I'd like to update the specific exercise with a new record, not override the whole field of specific exercise as I'd like to keep the history of progress. So far I can only GET the specific nested fields as seen in router.get('/:nickname/:info'), where we can specify the user and their name, age or gender. I can do the same with exercises field, but I keep failing at updating those. Here's the database:
[
{
"_id": "5927243d1028840e7b49a5f5",
"nickname": "annwumy",
"info": {
"name": "Bert",
"gender": "male",
"age": 25
},
"exercises": {
"squats": [],
"legpresses": [],
"deadlifts": [],
"benchpresses": [],
"pullups": [],
"shoulderpress": [],
"curls": []
}
},
{
"_id": "5927244c1028840e7b49a5f6",
"nickname": "mmsmsy",
"info": {
"name": "Mateusz",
"gender": "male",
"age": 26
},
"exercises": {
"squats": [],
"legpresses": [],
"deadlifts": [],
"benchpresses": [],
"pullups": [],
"shoulderpress": [],
"curls": []
}
}
]
And here's the back-end code with requests:
const express = require('express');
const router = express.Router();
const app = express();
const cors = require('cors');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const axios = require('axios');
const monk = require('monk');
const db = require('monk')('localhost/fitness-log');
const users = db.get('users');
app.use(cors());
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: true}));
app.use('/api/v1', router);
router.get('/listusers', (req, res) => {
users.find()
.then(users => res.json(users))
});
router.get('/:nickname', (req, res) => {
users.find({'nickname': req.params.nickname})
.then(user => res.json(user))
});
router.get('/:nickname/:info', (req, res) => {
users.find({'nickname': req.params.nickname}, `info.${req.params.info}`)
.then(user => res.json(user))
});
router.post('/adduser', (req, res) => {
users.insert(req.body, (err, result) => {
res.send(
(err === null) ? { msg: result } : { msg: err }
);
});
});
router.put('/addrecord/:nickname/:exercise', (req, res) => {
users.update({'nickname': req.params.nickname}, {$set: `info.${req.params.info}`}, (err, result) => {
res.send(
(err === null) ? { msg: result } : { msg: err }
);
});
});
router.delete('/deleteuser/:nickname', (req, res) => {
users.remove({ 'nickname': req.params.nickname }, err => {
res.send((err === null) ? { msg: '' } : { msg: 'error: ' + err});
});
});
router.delete('/deleteallusers', (req, res) => {
users.remove({}, err => {
res.send(err === null) ? {msg: '' } : { msg: 'error: ' + err};
});
});
app.listen(3001, () => console.log("Server running at 3001"));
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