[Help] How to populate Posts? I could not find any POST request to populate /api/posts about software-engineering-daily-api HOT 6 CLOSED

@ashishkharcheiu the only way to populate data is through adding to the database. The posts actually come from the Wordpress API via the sedaily-miner. If you're looking only to use the API with pre-seeded data then you should be able to accomplish it this way:

git clone [email protected]:SoftwareEngineeringDaily/sedaily-front-end.git
cd sedaily-front-end/devops
docker-compose up

Then open your browser to http://localhost:4040/api/posts.

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Ahh. the posts came from sedaily-miner! I was wondering what's the source.

So to use api-repo as standalone, I might have to create my own POST endpoints and code to generate post id and all content.

Thank you for response.

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@ashishkharcheiu you can use Docker to run the API and the database which has data already seeded. Check out the README for how to run it.

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@andrewmarklloyd Backend is running with MongoDB using docker. I have looked at SWAGGER API docs as well.

When we run the app, the "posts" collection is empty. The ISSUE I am asking to assist with is "how do we fill the collection "posts" with data, as I could not see any POST request for it.

In the below link, https://software-enginnering-daily-api.herokuapp.com/api/posts you see the data is available for the link, BUT how can I input the data in same way in "posts" collection so that when I do request: "https://localhost:4040/api/posts, I get the "posts" data and NOT the empty array.

Hope it clears what I am asking.

The only way I see is adding data directly to MongoDB database with an POST API endpoint for it.

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@ashishkharcheiu my apologies, I was confusing two of the repos. I was thinking about the front-end repo which references the pre-seeded Docker image. If you take a look at the front-end repo readme it talks about using that image. You can basically use this docker-compose file instead
https://github.com/SoftwareEngineeringDaily/sedaily-front-end/blob/master/devops/docker-compose.yml

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@andrewmarklloyd I read the README in front-end repo and also ran the vue App.

But it was not related to the issue it seems. I am going to write what I expected with backend and what I received to convey my issue better.

• https://github.com/SoftwareEngineeringDaily/software-engineering-daily-api -> Clone the repo and run as per README in the api-repo.

• Use POSTMAN and create "posts" through a POST request. --------> Here, I assumed I would find an endpoint for creating NEW posts, but I did not find looking through SWAGGER docs and code itself. (Note: I was able to create a USER through a POST request to clarify.)

• NOW I am confused at this point, so there is NO endpoint for creating "posts" through POSTMAN, then how the data or episodes or posts are added to the database by the developers??

To be clear, How to populate / create / add New DATA to this "posts" collection through POSTMAN?

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