What does this JSON response mean?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

In section 10 he shows how to create routes for adding, deleting, updating and reading data in a mongoDB database using mongoose.

This is part of that code:
// post.model.js

const express = require('express');
const postRoutes = express.Router();

// Require Post model in our routes module
let Post = require('./post.model');

// Defined store route
postRoutes.route('/add').post(function (req, res) {
  let post = new Post(req.body);
  post.save()
    .then(() => {
      res.status(200).json({'business': 'business in added successfully'});
    })
    .catch(() => {
      res.status(400).send("unable to save to database");
    });
});

Is there a specific reason he has put {'business': 'business in added successfully'} in the JSON for the 200 response? or can that just be anything? Also i'm not entirely sure what i would put in it for my specific scenario where i am trying to add, delete, update and read data about users in a 'users' collection.

manpreet 2 years ago

It can be anything, just to information that received request is successful and created the records. He added some response to that request.