To-Do service API

Tutorial: Get a task by an ID number

In this tutorial, you learn the operations to make a call to receive details of an existing task.

Expect this tutorial to take about 15 minutes to complete.

Before you start

Make sure you’ve completed the Before you start a tutorial topic on the development system you’ll use for the tutorial.

Request the task

Adding a new task to the service requires that you use the GET method to receive the details of the task resource in the service.

To receive details of a specified task:

1. Make sure your local service is running, or start it by using this command, if it’s not.

    cd <your-github-workspace>/to-do-service/api
    json-server -w to-do-db-source.json
   

2. Open the Postman app on your desktop.
3. In the Postman app, create a new request with these values:
   • METHOD: GET
   • URL: /tasks/{taskId}
4. In the Postman app, choose Send to make the request.

5. Watch for the response body, which should look something like this. Note that the id should be the same as you used in your URL as {taskId}.

    {
        "user_id": 1,
        "title": "Piano recital",
        "description": "Daughter's first concert appearance",
        "due_date": "2025-04-02T15:00",
        "warning": "-30",
        "id": 2
    }
   

After doing this tutorial in Postman, you might like to repeat it in your favorite programming language. To do this, adapt the values from the tutorial to the properties and arguments that the language uses to make REST API calls.

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