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GET all the todos in JSON format

How to complete the challenge GET /todos JSON (200) to successfully GET all the todos in JSON format.

GET /todos JSON (200)

Issue a GET request on the /todos end point with an Accept header of application/json to receive results in JSON format

• GET request will receive a response with all the todo items
  • e.g. GET /todos to get all the todo items
• 200 is a success code, in this case it means the end point exists and the `todo items were returned
• Accept means that an Accept header was added to specify that the todos should be returned in JSON format
• add the X-CHALLENGER header to track progress

Basic Instructions

• Issue a GET request to end point "/todos"
  • if running locally that endpoint would be
    • https://apichallenges.herokuapp.com/todos
• The request should have an Accept header specifying JSON format by using a value of application/json
• The request should have an X-CHALLENGER header to track challenge completion
• The response status code should be 200 when all the details are valid.
• Check the body of the message has JSON format data
• Check the content-type header in the response has application/json

Example Request

> GET /todos HTTP/1.1
> Host: apichallenges.herokuapp.com
> User-Agent: rest-client
> X-CHALLENGER: x-challenger-guid
> Accept: application/json

Example Response

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Connection: close
< Date: Sun, 09 May 2021 11:07:48 GMT
< Content-Type: application/json
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Access-Control-Allow-Headers: *
< X-Challenger: x-challenger-guid
< Server: Jetty(9.4.z-SNAPSHOT)
< Via: 1.1 vegur

Example Response body:

{
    "todos": [
        {
            "id": 16,
            "title": "process payroll",
            "doneStatus": false,
            "description": ""
        },
        {
            "id": 15,
            "title": "pay invoices",
            "doneStatus": false,
            "description": ""
        }
    ]
}

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