I want to query the yelp api, and have the following route:
app.get("/yelp/term/:term/location/:location", yelp.listPlaces)
When I make a GET request to
http://localhost:3000/yelp?term=food&location=austin
,
I get the error
Cannot GET /yelp?term=food&location=austin
What am I doing wrong?
Have you tried calling it like this?
http://localhost:30000/yelp/term/food/location/austin
The URL you need to call usually looks pretty much like the route, you could also change it to:
/yelp/:location/:term
To make it a little prettier:
http://localhost:30000/yelp/austin/food
In the requested url http://localhost:3000/yelp?term=food&location=austin
- base url/address is
localhost:3000
- route used for matching is
/yelp
- querystring url-encoded data is
?term=food&location=austin
i.e. data is everything after ?
Query strings are not considered when peforming these matches, for example "GET /" would match the following route, as would "GET /?name=tobi".
So you should either :
- use app.get("/yelp") and extract the term and location from req.query like
req.query.term
- use app.get("/yelp/term/:term/location/:location") but modify the url accordingly as luto described.
I want to add to @luto's answer. There is no need to define query string parameters in the route. For instance the route /a
will handle the request for /a?q=value
.
The url parameters is a shortcut to define all the matches for a pattern of route so the route /a/:b
will match
/a/b
/a/c
/a/anything
it wont match
/a/b/something
or /a