Freecodecamp: [Beta] All API and Microservice Projects pass for any url submission

[Dereje1]

Challenge Name

https://beta.freecodecamp.org/en/challenges/api-and-microservice-projects/timestamp-microservice
https://beta.freecodecamp.org/en/challenges/api-and-microservice-projects/request-header-parser-microservice
https://beta.freecodecamp.org/en/challenges/api-and-microservice-projects/url-shortener-microservice
https://beta.freecodecamp.org/en/challenges/api-and-microservice-projects/exercise-tracker
https://beta.freecodecamp.org/en/challenges/api-and-microservice-projects/file-metadata-microservice

Issue Description

Any solution link passes for all the projects, example, submitting https://www.google.com/ for all the projects above passes.

Browser Information

• Browser Name, Version: Chrome 66.0.3359.139 (Official Build) (64-bit)
• Operating System: Windows 10
• Mobile, Desktop, or Tablet: Surface Pro

[raisedadead]

/cc @tchaffee @Em-Ant

[Em-Ant]

Hello. Sorry If I made you wait a bit. I had a look, and unfortunately there are no tests for the microservices in the seed files.
Some test strings can be found in my 'app tester' glitch project https://glitch.com/edit/#!/narrow-plane?path=public/tests.js:141:2 . They work but they are not 100% complete. If someone can add them to the seed file it's better. I can do it, but it will take a while. I'm quite busy in this period.

[QuincyLarson]

@Em-Ant Thanks for the details. How soon do you think you'd be able to do this?

[Em-Ant]

I could add the few that we have on the test boilerplate quite soon, but those tests are not enough for all the microservices (they cover 100% of timestamp and we have a proof of concept for the others). I'd like to have some help on this.

[Em-Ant]

I submitted a PR to the curriculum with the tests for the timestamp microservice https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/curriculum/pull/99 .

I'll try to add all the tests that I have ready, even if they are not complete. It's better than having nothing.

[jonathan-grah]

Tests for API and Microservice Projects

• [x] Timestamp Microservice
• [ ] Request Header Parser Microservice
• [ ] URL Shortener Microservice
• [ ] Exercise Tracker
• [ ] File Metadata Microservice

[QuincyLarson]

@Em-Ant Thanks for fixing the timestamp microservice challenge. Have you had a chance to look at the other ones?

[Em-Ant]

@QuincyLarson sorry for the late response. No I didn't, I was waiting for @jonathan-grah to have a look.
I could add a couple of other tests, but I have some technical questions about how the testing works in the source code. Who can I ask ?

[jonathan-grah]

@Em-Ant, I can confirm the file metadata tests work on earlier versions of Internet Explorer, with testing, so these tests should be good to go! I can create a PR for these if your too busy. I'm not sure what you mean by the tests not being accurate enough on the tests glitch, I'm unable to see a better way of testing this behaviour.

[Em-Ant]

@jonathan-grah sorry I'm quite busy this month, please open a PR. My main concern was not about file metadata (even if it uses the new fetch api to simulate a file uplad). The url redirect needs other glitch projects running to check if the redirect works, and both that one and the exercise tracker would need to store something in a global object to pass the data across tests. I don't know if it's allowed in the freecodecamp source.

[QuincyLarson]

@jonathan-grah Sounds good. Thanks for looking into this and looking forward to your PR :)

[jonathan-grah]

I have just started back to school, with a new curriculum etc., which will be demanding for the next while, and @Em-Ant seems quite busy, so maybe a more active and available contributor would be able to chime in and help?

[raisedadead]

Closing this in favor of #35054

This has come up many times and I think we cannot check all the projects, since we do allow people to submit any project in any language of their choice.