874292 - Validate POST request body for event creation

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webmaker Graveyard :: Events, defect)

Description

[hike]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.63 Safari/537.31

Steps to reproduce:

curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{
    "title": "...",
    "description": "...",
    "address": "...",
    "begins": "...",
    "ends": "...",
    "resource": "...",
    "organizer": "...",
    "image": "..."
}' <server>/events



Expected results:

Validate fields;
  - if event is valid, create event and return Event object in json or html 'Details' page depending on Accept-header or uri extension (.json)
  - otherwise, return error message in html or json

Comment 1

[cbarton]

* Upon creating an event we currently ask a user for the start time and end time. If the event spans multiple days, how does a time come into play? Does that signify the daily event times? To help clarify the question, refer to the mockup's event details page. How would a user know to specify that the start date is September 30 at 11am and ending on October 31 at 5pm? What does that even mean?

Comment 2

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

I think it will end up being highly dependent on the event. In most cases, if something is a multi-day drop-in sort of thing (like: this hackerspace will be open) then people will use it as the open/close times for those spaces.

In some cases it will be irrelevant, but I think the user will just deal with that.

Comment 3

[hike]

Event-creation is now implemented, but currently without field validation. I'll make a separate ticket for client-side form validation.