Movie API

Instructions

In the initial commit to this project, you have been provided with data for the AFI Top 100 movies. Your task is to implement an Express driven REST API that allows a user to retrieve this data. Your API should support three requests types 1) A request for all data, 2) A request for all movies by a director, 3) A request for a movie by title. Note that you should support partial matches as shown below.

Requests and Expected Respones

Get All

GET http://localhost:1337/movies

Response

[{
  title: "12 Angry Men",
  directors: ["Sidney Lumet"],
  releaseDate: "4/10/1957",
  rating: "Not Rated",
  runTime: "95 mins",
  genres: ["Drama"],
},
... all other movies
]

Get By Title

GET http://localhost:1337/movies/lord

Response

[{
  title: "The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring",
  directors: ["Peter Jackson"],
  releaseDate: "12/19/2001",
  rating: "PG-13",
  runTime: "178 mins",
  genres: ["Adventure", "Drama", "Fantasy"],
}]

Get By Director

GET http://localhost:1337/movies/darabont

Response

[{
  title: "The Shawshank Redemption",
  directors: ["Frank Darabont"],
  releaseDate: "10/14/1994",
  rating: "R",
  runTime: "142 mins",
  genres: ["Drama"],
}]

Create New

POST http://localhost:1337/movies

Body

{
  title: "Cabin in the Woods",
  directors: ["Drew Goddard"],
  releaseDate: "04/13/2012",
  rating: "R",
  runTime: "95 mins",
  genres: ["Horror"],
}

Response

{
  title: "Cabin in the Woods",
  directors: ["Drew Goddard"],
  releaseDate: "04/13/2012",
  rating: "R",
  runTime: "95 mins",
  genres: ["Horror"],
}