Sorting with sort parameter in Rest API - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to add a sort parameter to the API URL that sorts users by age.

Rest API

GET /api/users?sort=[1]

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Aage

Bname

Cdate

Demail

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using 'name' or other fields instead of 'age' when the task asks to sort by age.

The sort parameter should be set to 'age' to sort users by their age.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to add a sort parameter that sorts products by price in descending order.

Rest API

GET /api/products?sort=[1]

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A-price

Bprice

Cprice_desc

Ddesc_price

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using 'price' which sorts ascending by default.

Using 'price_desc' or 'desc_price' which are not standard.

Using '-price' sorts the products by price in descending order in many APIs.

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hard

Fix the error in the URL to sort orders by date in ascending order.

Rest API

GET /api/orders?sort=[1]

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Adate_asc

B-date

Casc_date

Ddate

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using '-date' which sorts descending.

Using 'asc_date' or 'date_asc' which are not standard.

To sort by date ascending, just use 'date' without any prefix.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to sort employees by last name ascending and then by hire date descending.

Rest API

GET /api/employees?sort=[1],[2]

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Alast_name

B-hire_date

Chire_date

D-last_name

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Reversing the order or using wrong prefixes.

The first sort is ascending by last_name, the second is descending by hire_date using '-hire_date'.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to sort products by category ascending, then by price descending, then by rating ascending.

Rest API

GET /api/products?sort=[1],[2],[3]

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Acategory

B-price

Crating

D-category

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using wrong prefixes or wrong order of fields.

Sort first by 'category' ascending, then '-price' descending, then 'rating' ascending.