So I have an external API that I would like to filter out. Part of the API shows this information (in JSON format as an example:
{
"data": [
{
"first_name": "Fiona",
"last_name": "Smith",
"phone_number": "987-3595-89",
"mental_health_referral": false,
"date_last_mental_health_referal": "02/09/2018T00:00:00.0000Z",
"legal_councel_referal": true,
"CHW_id": 6866318
},
{
"first_name": "Richard",
"last_name": "Stewart",
"phone_number": "281-0394-41",
"mental_health_referral": true,
"date_last_mental_health_referal": "03/23/2018T00:00:00.0000Z",
"legal_councel_referal": false,
"CHW_id": 9241074
},
}
Now I am using axios to call all this data. This is the code:
//endpoint that will fetch data from an external API
app.get("/externalapi/", (req, res, next) => {
let apiURL = 'https://test.herokuapp.com/api/v1/data';
axios.get(apiURL)
.then(response => {
res.status(200).json(response.data);
})
.catch((err) => {
res.status(500).json({ message: err });
});
});
However, I would like to filter it out to where a specific endpoint would show me only Fiona's information and only show me Fiona's first name, last name, and phone number. I tried filtering it out using this endpoint
app.get("/externalapi/:first_name", (req, res, next) => {
However, it's only giving me errors when I test it out on Postman. What am I missing?
Can write a general function that will take the array and the name of the person you want to return:
const data = {
data: [
{
"first_name": "Fiona",
"last_name": "Smith",
"phone_number": "987-3595-89",
"mental_health_referral": false,
"date_last_mental_health_referal": "02/09/2018T00:00:00.0000Z",
"legal_councel_referal": true,
"CHW_id": 6866318
},
{
"first_name": "Richard",
"last_name": "Stewart",
"phone_number": "281-0394-41",
"mental_health_referral": true,
"date_last_mental_health_referal": "03/23/2018T00:00:00.0000Z",
"legal_councel_referal": false,
"CHW_id": 9241074
},
]
}
const getData = (arr, name) => {
const nameData = arr.filter(el => (el.first_name === name))
const returnedObj = nameData[0]
return returnedObj
}
const filteredData = getData(data.data, "Fiona")
const {first_name, last_name, phone_number} = filteredData
console.log(first_name)
console.log(last_name)
console.log(phone_number)
you can try filtering out the response data using the first name
const userData = response.data.filter((selection)=>{
return selection.first_name === 'Fiona';
});
console.log(userData);