Create Chirp

Our API needs to support standard CRUD operations for "chirps". A "chirp" is just a short message that a user can post to the API, like a tweet.

Assignment

Add a POST /api/chirps handler. It accepts a JSON payload with a body field:

{
  "body": "Hello, world!",
  "user_id": "123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000"
}

Delete the /api/validate_chirp endpoint that we created before, but port all that logic into this one. Users should not be allowed to create invalid chirps!

If the chirp is valid, you should save it in the database with:
- A new random id: A UUID
- created_at: A non-null timestamp
- updated_at: A non null timestamp
- body: A non-null string
- user_id: This should reference the id of the user who created the chirp, and ON DELETE CASCADE, which will cause a user's chirps to be deleted if the user is deleted.

You'll need a new up/down migration for this table.

As a general rule it's always a good idea to use created_at and updated_at timestamps for all your resources. It gives you a nice audit trail and makes it easier to debug issues.

If creating the record goes well, respond with a 201 status code and the full chirp resource:

{
  "id": "94b7e44c-3604-42e3-bef7-ebfcc3efff8f",
  "created_at": "2021-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "updated_at": "2021-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "body": "Hello, world!",
  "user_id": "123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000"
}

Yes, this isn't secure because it means any user can create a chirp on behalf of any other user. We'll fix that in a future assignment.

Run and submit the CLI tests.

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bootdev run acf357f0-ec20-429f-99ec-265963c2fedf

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bootdev run acf357f0-ec20-429f-99ec-265963c2fedf -s

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