Rest API Authentication with Autohotkey

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• Looking for Best Approach For update one in Mongoose

  I am still kind of new to Mongoose in general. I am building my blogging app which has backend based on Node and MongoDB, I am using Angular for frontend.

  I am creating my Restful API which is supposed to allow user click on a post and update it. However, I don't know for sure whether I am doing it the right way here.

  This is the schema for my post:

  const mongoose = require('mongoose');
  
  // Schema Is ONly bluePrint
  var postSchema = mongoose.Schema({
    title: {type: String, required: true },
    content: {type: String, required: true},
  }, {timestamps: true});
  
  module.exports =  mongoose.model("Post", postSchema);
  

  In my angular service, I have this function to help me to send the http request to my backend server, the id for this function comes from backend mongoDB, title and content is from the form on the page

    updatePost(id: string, title: string, content: string) {
      console.log('start posts.service->updatePost()');
      const post: Post = {
        id: id,
        title: title,
        content: content
      };
      this._http.put(`http://localhost:3000/api/posts/${id}`, post)
        .subscribe(res => console.log(res));
    }
  

  It appears to me that there are at least couple of ways of approaching this for creating my API

  Method 1 ( works but highly doubt if this is good practice): here I am passing the id retrieved from mongoDB back to server via my service.ts file to avoid the 'modifying immutable field _id' error

  app.put("/api/posts/:id", (req,res)=>{
    console.log('update api called:', req.params.id);
    const post = new Post({
      id: req.body.id,
      title: req.body.title,
      content: req.body.content
    });
  
    Post.updateOne({_id: req.params.id}, post).then( result=> {
      console.log(result);
      res.json({message:"Update successful!"});
    });
  });
  

  Method 2 I consider this is more robust than method 1 but still I don't think its good practice:

    app.put("/api/posts/:id", (req, res)=> {
    Post.findOne(
        {_id:req.params.id},(err,post)=>{
            if(err){
                console.log('Post Not found!');
                res.json({message:"Error",error:err});
            }else{
                console.log('Found post:',post);
                post.title=req.body.title;
                post.content=req.body.content;
                post.save((err,p)=>{
                    if(err){
                        console.log('Save from update failed!');
                        res.json({message:"Error",error:err});
                    }else{
                        res.json({message:"update success",data:p});
                    }   
                })
            }
        }
    );
  });
  

  I am open to all opinions in the hope that I can learn something from guru of Mongoose and Restful : )
• paypal rest api - payouts-item webhook event notification flow

  Question is related to paypal's REST API webhooks event notifications ofPAYMENT.PAYOUTS-ITEM branch.

  From the docs I see 9 different events here

  • PAYMENT.PAYOUTS-ITEM.BLOCKED
  • PAYMENT.PAYOUTS-ITEM.CANCELED
  • PAYMENT.PAYOUTS-ITEM.DENIED
  • PAYMENT.PAYOUTS-ITEM.FAILED
  • PAYMENT.PAYOUTS-ITEM.HELD
  • PAYMENT.PAYOUTS-ITEM.REFUNDED
  • PAYMENT.PAYOUTS-ITEM.RETURNED
  • PAYMENT.PAYOUTS-ITEM.SUCCEEDED
  • PAYMENT.PAYOUTS-ITEM.UNCLAIMED.

  Let us assume we have installed webhooks listener for all 9 events. Further a payout-item shall be created via a payoutsbatch e.g. using create payout in the REST API.

  I would expect event notifications now. The problem is the chain or order of these events occurring. E.g. it is said in the docs that unclaimed payouts are returned after 30 days. So I would expect a PAYMENT.PAYOUTS-ITEM.UNCLAIMED event followed by PAYMENT.PAYOUTS-ITEM.RETURNED.

  But how about the other events? More specific, which of these events are mutual exclusive and can we take a subgroup of these events so that always one out of this subgroup is the final event occurring for a payout-item.

  So I am basically trying to mimic a `.COMPLETED' event, which I am greatly missing here.
• Responding with an incomplete resource to a async request in a REST API

  Creating a resource in an async REST API, is it valid if my server responds with an incomplete resource with a status indicator instead of returning a temporary resource?

  ---

  As an example, lets say I have a service that notarizes messages adding them in a blockchain, in order to prove their existence later (like "Proof of Existence").

  The execution takes a while so its a good idea to make is asynchronous.

  The user sends a POST /messages, with the payload:

  {
      "message" : "Hello SO friends!"
  }
  

  The server then responds a 202 Accepted with a body:

  {
      "id" : 1999283,
      "message" : "Hello SO friends!",
      "status" : "pending",
      "block" : null,
      "timestamp" : null
  }
  

  And a header Location: /messages/1999283

  The resource depicted above is incomplete as it still doesn't have a block and a timestamp, and has a "pending" status.

  The user will poll /messages/1999283 and will get a 200 OK with the same json as above in the body while the server is waiting for it to be added to a block.

  After some minutes, the user will poll again and get a 200 OK along with a complete resource:

  {
      "id" : 1999283,
      "message" : "Hello SO Friends!",
      "status" : "completed",
      "block" : 10029,
      "timestamp" : "20181215T204012Z"
  }
  
• Creating an SQL Table based on JSON

  I'm trying to create a Node JS App that will receive Shopify's cart creation webhook https://help.shopify.com/en/api/reference/events/webhookjson payload and then post into a mySql Table( ClearDB) I keep running into this issues below either SQL syntax has an error or even though I created the table based on the JSON file.

  Error: ER_BAD_FIELD_ERROR: Unknown column 'token' in 'field list'   
  
  ER_PARSE_ERROR: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' `gift_card` = false, `grams` = 200, `line_price` = '59.97', `original_line_pric' at line 1
  

  Here is my post handler and JSON payload. Any help on creating a table that can properly accept the payload would be helpful. Thanks!

  app.post("/abandoned", function (req, res) {
   var postData  = req.body;
  connection.query('INSERT INTO mytable SET ?', postData, function (error, results, fields) {
    if (error) throw error;
    res.end(JSON.stringify(results));
  });
  

  });

      {
    "id": "eeafa272cebfd4b22385bc4b645e762c",
    "token": "eeafa272cebfd4b22385bc4b645e762c",
    "line_items": [
      {
        "id": 704912205188288575,
        "properties": {
        },
        "quantity": 3,
        "variant_id": 704912205188288575,
        "key": "704912205188288575:33f11f7a1ec7d93b826de33bb54de37b",
        "discounted_price": "19.99",
        "discounts": [
        ],
        "gift_card": false,
        "grams": 200,
        "line_price": "59.97",
        "original_line_price": "59.97",
        "original_price": "19.99",
        "price": "19.99",
        "product_id": 788032119674292922,
        "sku": "example-shirt-s",
        "taxable": true,
        "title": "Example T-Shirt - ",
        "total_discount": "0.00",
        "vendor": "Acme",
        "discounted_price_set": {
          "shop_money": {
            "amount": "19.99",
            "currency_code": "USD"
          },
          "presentment_money": {
            "amount": "19.99",
            "currency_code": "USD"
          }
        },
        "line_price_set": {
          "shop_money": {
            "amount": "59.97",
            "currency_code": "USD"
          },
          "presentment_money": {
            "amount": "59.97",
            "currency_code": "USD"
          }
        },
        "original_line_price_set": {
          "shop_money": {
            "amount": "59.97",
            "currency_code": "USD"
          },
          "presentment_money": {
            "amount": "59.97",
            "currency_code": "USD"
          }
        },
        "price_set": {
          "shop_money": {
            "amount": "19.99",
            "currency_code": "USD"
          },
          "presentment_money": {
            "amount": "19.99",
            "currency_code": "USD"
          }
        },
        "total_discount_set": {
          "shop_money": {
            "amount": "0.0",
            "currency_code": "USD"
          },
          "presentment_money": {
            "amount": "0.0",
            "currency_code": "USD"
          }
        }
      }
    ],
    "note": null,
    "updated_at": "2018-10-26T17:55:20.401Z",
    "created_at": "2018-10-26T17:55:20.400Z"
  }
• In RESTful API where to use set cookie, in API itself or at client side where actual request is being genrated

  I'm working on an API and I'm not sure where should I set cookie for client side. Should I use API itself to store cookie when authentication is complete but I don't think that's preferred way to set client cookie. Here is the problem, I'm working on the android app as well. So, if I'm not storing cookie on API side, do I have to set cookie on both Android App and Web-interface separately?
• How to add a loading animation while Fetch data from API? Vanilla js

  I tried a lot of answers here, but all answers I found, people are using jquery, ajax, react or things like that. I would like a answer with pure javascript (vanilla js).

  const movieApiMovies = () => {
  fetch(movieApi_url + "movies/")
      .then(response => response.json())
      .then(function (data) {
          let result = `<h2> Movies I've watched! </h2>`;
          data.forEach((movie) => {
              const {id, name, year, note_imdb, genre, duration} = movie;
              result +=
                  `<div>
                      <h5> Movie ID: ${id} </h5>
                      <ul>
                          <li>Movie name: ${name}</li>
                          <li>Movie year: ${year}</li>
                          <li>Movie note on IMDB: ${note_imdb}</li>
                          <li>Movie Genre: ${genre}</li>
                          <li>Movie duration: ${duration}</li>
                      </ul>
                  </div>`;
              document.getElementById('movieResult').innerHTML = result;
          })
      })
  };
  

  I have a animation, it's on this Div element.

  <div class="boxLoading"></div>
  

  And I have a button that is going to call everything.

  <div id="button1">
        <button class="button" id="moviesfromapi"onclick="movieApiMovies ()">Display</button>
  </div>
  
• Autohotkey: Adapting full-screen images from 1080p to 4k display?

  TL;DR

  An absolute AHK neophyte asks: How do you tweak an AHK script so that a full-screen image can display properly on a 4k monitor (considering the script was originally written for a 1080p resolution)?

  Here's the program I'm trying to fix: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sbypodhincq6jnm/Install%20God%27s%20Presence?dl=0

  ---

  Full version of the question:

  Hi! I have a little AHK script that executes a very simple task: it displays an image across the entire screen for 30 seconds every 30 minutes.

  It worked well for my old 1080p display, but recently I switched to a 4k one and the image now occupies just a small corner of the screen.

  So I wondered if you could help: How can I get the image to display full-screen on my new 4k device?

  I have a hunch this should be easy to fix if one just tweaks a few numbers here and there, but that's all I know. I've searched around in the AHK forums, but strangely I can't seem to find an answer for this specific little problem. So I apologize I can't offer more info!

  Here's the program I'm trying to fix: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sbypodhincq6jnm/Install%20God%27s%20Presence?dl=0
• Automation of some chrome windows based on their title

  sorry if the title is not clear enough. Let's say i have 20 Chrome windows open.

  I need to check their titles every X minutes and perform an action inside the window (clicking a button, or just clicking a coordinate is fine too) if the title contains a particular word.

  What would the best way be? Autohotkey? Every result I find about AHK is kinda old so i'm wondering if there's a smarter way to do that. I know the basics of phyton and java but i'm guessing it would be a mess to write a single script to control all those windows.

  Thank you in advance
• How to make menu dropdown from DDL in AutoHotKey

  In VBA a ComboBox can be made to show/dropdown its list by below code.

  ComboBox1.DropDown
  

  How to make a DDL dropdown its menu like this in AutoHotKey?