Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift

Creating a new item

To create a new item, call the save() method to save the JournalItem object to the database:

func createItemHandler(item: JournalItem,                       completion: @escaping(JournalItem?, RequestError?) -> Void) {  item.save(completion)}

Similar to the updateItemHandler(item, completion) method, createItemHandler(item, completion) expects a new JournalItem object submitted by user.

Check the createItemHandler(item:completion:) function with the following curl command:

$ curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \--request POST \--data '{"title":"New Entry","content":"This is a brand new entry."}' \http://localhost:8080/api/admin

After posting the request to create a new journal entry, check all of your records in the database again: ...