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Notes Edit Page

Notes Edit Page

Learn to implement an API to edit/update a new note/record in a Beego application.

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Editing a note

Now, we are going to implement routes/API to edit the details of a note.

First, we will create a page that will have a form filled with the details of the note. These details can be edited, and when we submit the form, it updates the note.

Let’s start by defining a new route in the routers/route.go file.

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package routers
import (
	"beego_notes/controllers"
	beego "github.com/beego/beego/v2/server/web"
)
func init() {
	beego.Router("/", &controllers.MainController{})
	beego.Router("/notes", &controllers.NotesController{}, "get:NotesIndex")
	beego.Router("/notes/new", &controllers.NotesController{}, "get:NotesNewForm")
	beego.Router("/notes", &controllers.NotesController{}, "post:NotesCreate")
	beego.Router("/notes/:id([0-9]+)", &controllers.NotesController{}, "get:NotesShow")
	beego.Router("/notes/edit/:id([0-9]+)", &controllers.NotesController{}, "get:NotesEditPage")
	beego.Router("/notes/:id", &controllers.NotesController{}, "post:NotesUpdate")
}

We added two routes to the project: /notes/edit/:id([0-9]+) and /notes/:id. The :id part of the route is a placeholder for the note Id. The [0-9]+ part of the route specifies that the note Id must be a number.

Here are the details of the new routes:

  • Line 15: This route has the get method and the NotesEditPage action. This route means that when the /notes/edit/:id([0-9]+) path is requested, the NotesEditPage() action in the NotesController controller will be executed. The NotesEditPage() action will get the note with the specified id ...