May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
470 pages
13h 54m
English
We will add a route in the media routes to fetch a video when a GET request is received at '/api/medias/video/:mediaId'.
mern-mediastream/server/routes/media.routes.js:
router.route('/api/medias/video/:mediaId') .get(mediaCtrl.video)router.param('mediaId', mediaCtrl.mediaByID)
The :mediaId parameter in the route URL will be processed in the mediaByID controller to fetch the associated document from the Media collection and attached to the request object, so it may be used in the video controller method as required.
mern-mediastream/server/controllers/media.controller.js:
const mediaByID = (req, res, next, id) => { Media.findById(id).populate('postedBy', '_id name').exec((err, media) => { if (err || !media) return res.status('400').json({ ...Read now
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