I'm kind of new with express, I'm currently working with thedogapi, I am doing the backend and I need to make a GET to an exact part of the api (the temperaments) that's bringing me a lot of problems, an example of the api is:
},
"id": 1,
"name": "Affenpinscher",
"bred_for": "Small rodent hunting, lapdog",
"breed_group": "Toy",
"life_span": "10 - 12 years",
"temperament": "Stubborn, Curious, Playful, Adventurous, Active, Fun-loving",
"origin": "Germany, France",
"reference_image_id": "BJa4kxc4X",
"image": {
"id": "BJa4kxc4X",
"width": 1600,
"height": 1199,
"url": "https://cdn2.thedogapi.com/images/BJa4kxc4X.jpg"
}
As you can see, my problem it's that it is only a string with words inside, the thing here would be extracting only the temperaments so I can save them on my database once extracted, but the question is, how could I do that? I have been trying a few things, but doesn't seems to work... A code I was trying was
const getTemp = await Temperament.findAll()
if (getTemp.length === 0){
const apiAxios = await axios.get(`https://api.thedogapi.com/v1/breeds?api_key=${API_KEY}`)
const infoToGet = await apiAxios.data?.map(el => {
console.log(el.temperament?.split(",").map(el => el.trim()).toString())
return {
temperament: [el.temperament]?.join().split(",").map(el => el.trim()).toString()
}
})
const dbSave = await
Temperament.bulkCreate(infoToGet)
}
I totally discarded that code since it wasn't achieven what I wanted, but the part of the temperaments was kinda working according to the console log, but still wasn't working, so then I received kind of a reference for help, but this wouldn't make it since it's using array methods... I'll show you (that code bellow should work if it was an array...)
router.get("/temperaments", async (req, res) => {
const temperamentsApi = await axios.get(`https://api.thedogapi.com/v1/breeds?api_key=${API_KEY}`)
const temperaments = temperamentsApi.data.map( el => el.temperament)
const tempEach = temperaments.map(el => {
for (let i = 0; i < el.length; i++) return el[i]})
console.log(tempEach)
tempEach.forEach(el => {
Temperament.findOrCreate({
where: { temperament: el }
})
})
const allTemperaments = await Temperament.findAll()
res.send(allTemperaments)
})
how would you make this last thing work on the TEMPERAMENT part alone? sorry if it was kinda long, I'm new in all this, and I'm truly stuck here :s
According to the API reference:
https://docs.thedogapi.com/api-reference/breeds/breeds-list
I give you an example for your reference, I refer to your code, the variable temperamentsApi stores the API result, so the extraction code should be as below.
let result=[];
temperamentsApi.data.forEach(datum=>{
result.push(datum.temperament);
});
console.log(result);