I cannot make a POST request to /questions/ID/answers 404 error

Question

so I am making an API for creating questions and getting answers on the question id but whenever I use postman to create a POST request to answers.

Whenever I create a POST request to http://localhost:3000/api/questions/ID/answers it gives me a 404. I use node-restful package for creating this API and here is the Schema

// Dependencies
var restful = require('node-restful');
// Database
var mongoose = restful.mongoose;

var Schema = mongoose.Schema;

// Question Schema
var QuestionSchema = new Schema({
  qTitle: {
    type: String,
    required: true
  },
  qBody: {
    type: String,
    required: true
  },
  created_at: {
    type: Date
  },
  updated_at: {
    type: Date
  },
  answers: [{
    aTitle: {
      type: String,
      required: true
    },
    aBody: {
      type: String,
      required: true
    },
    created_at: Date,
    updated_at: Date
  }]
});


// Export the question schema
module.exports = restful.model('Questions', QuestionSchema);

If there is any errors or if you wish to see more code let me know!

Here is my routes

'use strict';
var express = require('express');

var router = express.Router();

var Question = require('../models/question');

Question.methods(['get', 'put', 'post', 'delete']);
Question.register(router, '/questions');


// Exports the router
module.exports = router;

Answer 1

我认为您应该添加:id/answers类的

Question.register(router, '/questions/:id/answers');

Answer 2

According to the documentation for node-restful you need to turn on detail: true in a custom route like:

Question.route('answers', {
method:'post',
detail: true,
handler: function(req, res, next) {
    // req.params.id holds the resource's id
    res.send("I'm at /questions/:id/answers")
}

});

this is totally untested, and likely not completely correct since your model is complex and all the examples were pretty simple. But you definitely need a custom route. This little code snippet probably will set up a bunch of routes you don't want as well, but it should point you in the right direction.

I just took a quick look at the documentation here: http://www.baugarten.me/node-restful/