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How to complete the challenge GET /todos/id 200.

How to issue a GET request for an existing todo item using the id of the item and receive a 200 status code and see the todo item as JSON in the response body.

GET /todos/id (200)

Issue a GET request on the /todos/{id} end point to return a specific todo

• This will show you a todo in the API response
• 200 status code means OK
• The response is the basic JSON format you use in a POST request to create a todo
• The {id} means, replace this with the id of an existing todo item

Basic Instructions

• Issue a GET request to end point "/todos/{id}"
  • https://apichallenges.herokuapp.com/todos/{id}
• The request should have an X-CHALLENGER header
• The response status code should be 200

Example Request

> GET /todos/79 HTTP/1.1
> Host: apichallenges.herokuapp.com
> User-Agent: rest-client
> X-CHALLENGER: x-challenger-guid
> Accept: */*

Example Response

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Connection: close
< Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 13:35:41 GMT
< Content-Type: application/json
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< X-Challenger: x-challenger-guid
< Server: Jetty(9.4.z-SNAPSHOT)
< Via: 1.1 vegur

Example Response Body

{
  "todos": [
    {
      "id": 79,
      "title": "tidy meeting room",
      "doneStatus": false,
      "description": ""
    }
  ]
}

Overview Video

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