Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

Validating data type

We have completed our first scenario, so let's move on to our second and third scenarios. As a reminder, they are as follows:

• If the client sends a POST request to /users with a payload that is not JSON, our API should respond with a 415 Unsupported Media Type HTTP status code and a JSON object payload containing an appropriate error message.
• If the client sends a POST request to /users with a malformed JSON payload, our API should respond with a 400 Bad Request HTTP status code and a JSON response payload containing an appropriate error message.

Start by adding the following scenario definition to the spec/cucumber/features/users/create/main.feature file:

  Scenario: Payload using Unsupported Media Type If the client ...