Create up to 100 books in one request

POSThttps://api.testingapis.com/api/Books/bulkSign in to see this endpoint's URL

All items are validated first; if any item is invalid nothing is stored and the error names its index.

Request body

Optional. application/json, text/json, application/*+json, application/xml, text/xml, application/*+xml. Model: Book. JSON array of 1 to 100 records.

Example body

[
  {
    "title": "Clean Code",
    "author": "Robert C. Martin",
    "isbn": "9780132350884",
    "genre": "programming",
    "publishedYear": 2008,
    "pages": 464,
    "language": "English",
    "price": 37.99,
    "rating": 4.4,
    "available": true,
    "tags": ["craftsmanship", "refactoring"]
  }
]

Responses

200: OK
201: Created; returns { message, data } with every generated ID.
400: The array is empty, has more than 100 items, or an item fails validation.

Example

Request

curl -X POST "https://api.testingapis.com/api/Books/bulk?ids=27,28" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[{"title": "Clean Code", "author": "Robert C. Martin", "isbn": "9780132350884", "genre": "programming", "publishedYear": 2008, "pages": 464, "language": "English", "price": 37.99, "rating": 4.4, "available": true, "tags": ["craftsmanship", "refactoring"]}]' \
  -H "X-TestingApis-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response201 Created

{
  "message": "1 book record(s) created",
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 30,
      "title": "Clean Code",
      "author": "Robert C. Martin",
      "isbn": "9780132350884",
      "genre": "programming",
      "publishedYear": 2008,
      "pages": 464,
      "language": "English",
      "price": 37.99,
      "rating": 4.4,
… (5 more lines)

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curl -X POST 'https://api.testingapis.com/api/Books/bulk?ids=27%2C28' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'X-TestingApis-Key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '[{"title": "Clean Code", "author": "Robert C. Martin", "isbn": "9780132350884", "genre": "programming", "publishedYear": 2008, "pages": 464, "language": "English", "price": 37.99, "rating": 4.4, "available": true, "tags": ["craftsmanship", "refactoring"]}]'

const res = await fetch("https://api.testingapis.com/api/Books/bulk?ids=27%2C28", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
  body: "[{\"title\": \"Clean Code\", \"author\": \"Robert C. Martin\", \"isbn\": \"9780132350884\", \"genre\": \"programming\", \"publishedYear\": 2008, \"pages\": 464, \"language\": \"English\", \"price\": 37.99, \"rating\": 4.4, \"available\": true, \"tags\": [\"craftsmanship\", \"refactoring\"]}]",
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

const res = await fetch("https://api.testingapis.com/api/Books/bulk?ids=27%2C28", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
  body: "[{\"title\": \"Clean Code\", \"author\": \"Robert C. Martin\", \"isbn\": \"9780132350884\", \"genre\": \"programming\", \"publishedYear\": 2008, \"pages\": 464, \"language\": \"English\", \"price\": 37.99, \"rating\": 4.4, \"available\": true, \"tags\": [\"craftsmanship\", \"refactoring\"]}]",
});
const body: string = await res.text();
console.log(res.status, body);

import requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.testingapis.com/api/Books/bulk?ids=27%2C28",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    },
    data="[{\"title\": \"Clean Code\", \"author\": \"Robert C. Martin\", \"isbn\": \"9780132350884\", \"genre\": \"programming\", \"publishedYear\": 2008, \"pages\": 464, \"language\": \"English\", \"price\": 37.99, \"rating\": 4.4, \"available\": true, \"tags\": [\"craftsmanship\", \"refactoring\"]}]",
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)

using System.Net.Http.Headers;

using var client = new HttpClient();
using var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "https://api.testingapis.com/api/Books/bulk?ids=27%2C28");
request.Headers.TryAddWithoutValidation("X-TestingApis-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY");
request.Content = new StringContent("[{\"title\": \"Clean Code\", \"author\": \"Robert C. Martin\", \"isbn\": \"9780132350884\", \"genre\": \"programming\", \"publishedYear\": 2008, \"pages\": 464, \"language\": \"English\", \"price\": 37.99, \"rating\": 4.4, \"available\": true, \"tags\": [\"craftsmanship\", \"refactoring\"]}]");
request.Content.Headers.ContentType = MediaTypeHeaderValue.Parse("application/json");
using var response = await client.SendAsync(request);
Console.WriteLine($"{(int)response.StatusCode} {await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync()}");

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder(URI.create("https://api.testingapis.com/api/Books/bulk?ids=27%2C28"))
                .header("X-TestingApis-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
                .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
                .method("POST", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString("[{\"title\": \"Clean Code\", \"author\": \"Robert C. Martin\", \"isbn\": \"9780132350884\", \"genre\": \"programming\", \"publishedYear\": 2008, \"pages\": 464, \"language\": \"English\", \"price\": 37.99, \"rating\": 4.4, \"available\": true, \"tags\": [\"craftsmanship\", \"refactoring\"]}]"))
                .build();
        HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.statusCode() + " " + response.body());
    }
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	body := strings.NewReader("[{\"title\": \"Clean Code\", \"author\": \"Robert C. Martin\", \"isbn\": \"9780132350884\", \"genre\": \"programming\", \"publishedYear\": 2008, \"pages\": 464, \"language\": \"English\", \"price\": 37.99, \"rating\": 4.4, \"available\": true, \"tags\": [\"craftsmanship\", \"refactoring\"]}]")
	req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.testingapis.com/api/Books/bulk?ids=27%2C28", body)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	req.Header.Set("X-TestingApis-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
	res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()
	data, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(res.StatusCode, string(data))
}

POSThttps://api.testingapis.com/api/Books/bulk?ids=27%2C28

Create up to 100 books in one request

Request body

Responses

Example

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