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| // Route to fetch book by author | ||
| app.get("/books/authors/:author", async (req, res) => { | ||
| const { author } = req.params; | ||
| try { | ||
| // Use a case-insensitive regex to match authors | ||
| const books = await Book.find({ authors: new RegExp(author, "i") }); | ||
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| if (books.length === 0) { | ||
| return res.status(404).send("No books found for this author"); // Handle no results | ||
| } | ||
| res.json(books); // Send list of books by the author | ||
| } catch(error) { | ||
| console.error("Error retrieving books by author", error); // Log error | ||
| res.status(500).send("Server error"); // Handle server errors | ||
| } | ||
| }); |
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Remember that even though you're filtering on an author, you're still returning books. So it would be more RESTful to make this a query param under the /books endpoint. Remember for future!
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