I want to send a put request to modify the command part of my JSON file. Here is my JSON;
{
"users": [
{
"hostname": "xxx.xxx.xxx.xx",
"password": "password1",
"command": "command1",
"id": 1
},
{
"hostname": "xxx.xxx.xxx.xx",
"password": "password2",
"command": "command2",
"id": 2
},
{
"hostname": "xxx.xx.xx.xxx",
"password": "password3",
"command": "command3",
"id": 3
}
]
}
In App.js I send put request like this;
stopPC(id){
axios.put('http://localhost:3002/users/'+id,{
command: 'stop'
})
}
And I have tried this;
axios({
method: 'put',
url: 'http://localhost:3002/users/'+ id,
data: {
hostname: id.hostname,
password: id.password,
command: 'stop'
}
});
In both, I got the following output in the JSON file.
{
"users": [
{
"command": "stop",
"id": 1
},
{
"hostname": "xxx.xxx.xxx.xx",
"password": "password2",
"command": "command2",
"id": 2
},
{
"hostname": "xxx.xxx.xxx.xx",
"password": "password3",
"command": "command3",
"id": 3
}
]
}
I want to change only the command information while keeping the hostname and password information the same. I'm not sure where I went wrong, I'd be glad if you could help.
If id is of type Number (which I think it is), id.hostname and id.password would be undefined, so basically
{
hostname: id.hostname,
password: id.password,
command: 'stop'
}
and
{
command: 'stop'
}
are the same to Javascript and you're effectively sending the same payload. I think that the best way of solving this would be changing how the backend handles the incoming payload by just changing the properties that came in the request. If you don't have access to changing the backend, you would have to get or read the current stored value and use that in the payload. Something like
user = axios.get('http://localhost:3002/users/'+id).then(r => r.data)
axios.put('http://localhost:3002/users/'+id,{
hostname: user.hostname,
password: user.password,
command: 'stop'
})
Also, PUT is meant to be used used to replace a record, and PATCH to update the existing one, which sounds more like what you want to do. Maybe just try axios.patch and it may work.