Fetch a Specific Genre
Learn how to retrieve specific data based on conditions from MongoDB.
Fetching a specific genre
By using Mongo’s find operation and the genre_id
as a search input, it’s possible to retrieve just one genre from the database. As a result, we pass the ID of the parameter we’re interested in learning more about as a query and pass the user’s token as a header. This is a straightforward GET
request.
Setting up the controller
In the genreCollections.go
file, we create a GetGenre()
function. This utilizes the FindOne()
technique in Mongo. Therefore, after receiving genre_id
as the necessary query argument, this function queries the database to determine whether the needed data is there. The requested data is returned if it exists; otherwise, an error is raised. We add the following code to the file:
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