o Adding support for inserting employees.

1 files changed, 39 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/routes/index.js b/routes/index.js
index 49db10c..82bce70 100644
--- a/routes/index.js
+++ b/routes/index.js
@@ -313,11 +313,11 @@ function getEmployees(req, res) {
           }],
           template: {
             data: [
-              { name: 'birth_date', prompt: 'Birth Date' },
+              { name: 'birth_date', prompt: 'Birth Date (YYYY-MM-DD)' },
               { name: 'first_name', prompt: 'First Name' },
               { name: 'last_name', prompt: 'Last Name' },
-              { name: 'gender', prompt: 'Gender' },
-              { name: 'hire_date', prompt: 'Hire Date. Defaults to today.' }
+              { name: 'gender', prompt: 'Gender (M/F)' },
+              { name: 'hire_date', prompt: 'Hire Date (YYYY-MM-DD). Defaults to today.' }
             ]
           },
           items: mapEmployees(res, employees)
@@ -331,8 +331,43 @@ function getEmployees(req, res) {
   });
 };
 
+function postEmployees(req, res) {
+  switch(req.headers['content-type']) {
+  case 'application/vnd.collection+json':
+    var s = '';
+    req.setEncoding('utf8');
+    req.on('data', function(string) {
+      s += string;
+    }).on('end', function() {
+      var body = collection_json.fromObject(JSON.parse(s));
+      var data = body.template.toObject();
+      connect(res, function(dao) {
+        var now = new Date();
+        var hire_date = data.hire_date;
+        if(typeof hire_date !== 'string' || hire_date.trim().length == 0) {
+          hire_date = now.getFullYear() + '-' + (now.getMonth() + 1) + '-' + now.getDate();
+        }
+
+        dao.insertEmployee(data.birth_date,
+                           data.first_name,
+                           data.last_name,
+                           data.gender,
+                           hire_date, after(res, function(emp_no) {
+          res.writeHead(201, {'Location' : res.urlgenerator.employee(emp_no)});
+          res.end();
+        }));
+      });
+    });
+    break;
+  default:
+    res.send(415, 'Sending "application/vnd.collection+json" is required.');
+    break;
+  }
+}
+
 exports.employees = method({
-  GET: getEmployees
+  GET: getEmployees,
+  POST: postEmployees
 });
 
 function getEmployee(req, res) {