Node.js 400 Bad request

Question

I'm stuck with the 400 bad request when trying to POST to my mongo db, not knowing what's wrong with the code.

This is the structure in Mongoose:

var exp = mongoose.model('Exp', {
    _creator: {
        type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
        required: true
    },

    exps: [{
        description: {
            type: String,
            required: true
        },
        skillId: {
            type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
            required: true
        }
    }]

});

This is my test case structure and it is how I want the data to be stored:

const exp = {
    _creator: UserOneId, // an ObjectID
    exps:[{
        description: "Ate an apple",
        skillId: SkillOneId // an ObjectID
    },{
        description: "Took a shower",
        skillId: SkillTwoId // an ObjectID
    }],

};

The exps part should be an array to allow storing multiple exps, each with a description and a skill id.

Below is my POST function:

app.post('/exps', authenticate, (req, res) => {

  var exp = new Exp({
    _creator: req.user._id, // got from suthenticate middleware
    exps: req.body.exps
  });
  exp.save().then(() => {
    res.send(exp);
  }, (e) => {
    res.status(400).send(e);
  });

})

and my test case:

describe('POST /exps', () => {
    it('Should create new exp', (done) => {
        request(app)
            .post('/exps')
            .set('x-auth', users[0].tokens[0].token)
            .send(exps)
            .expect(200)
            .end(done);
    })
});

With a structure like this, I just can't figure out what went wrong that's giving me the 400, middleware & variables not mentioned here have passed with other test cases so I don't think it's those.

The error message in test looks like this:

1) POST /exps Should create new exp:
 Error: expected 200 "OK", got 400 "Bad Request"
  at Test._assertStatus (node_modules/supertest/lib/test.js:250:12)
  at Test._assertFunction (node_modules/supertest/lib/test.js:265:11)
  at Test.assert (node_modules/supertest/lib/test.js:153:18)
  at Server.assert (node_modules/supertest/lib/test.js:131:12)
  at emitCloseNT (net.js:1552:8)
  at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:77:11)
  at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:104:9)

Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

Ah, found it. It was a typo in the POST function.