Replace a movie

PUThttps://api.testingapis.com/api/Movies/{id}Sign in to see this endpoint's URL

Every field is overwritten with the body; the ID from the route wins over any ID in the body.

Parameters 1

Name	Type	Description
`id`required	path · integer (int32)	Record ID.

Request body

Optional. application/json, text/json, application/*+json, application/xml, text/xml, application/*+xml. Model: Movie. The full replacement record.

Example body

{
  "title": "The Shawshank Redemption",
  "director": "Frank Darabont",
  "year": 1994,
  "genres": ["Drama"],
  "runtimeMinutes": 142,
  "rating": 9.3,
  "cast": ["Tim Robbins", "Morgan Freeman"],
  "boxOffice": 58300000,
  "poster": "https://picsum.photos/seed/movie1/300/450"
}

Responses

200: Replaced; returns { message, data }.
400: The body is missing, malformed or fails validation.
404: No record has this ID.

Example

Request

curl -X PUT "https://api.testingapis.com/api/Movies/26" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"title": "The Shawshank Redemption", "director": "Frank Darabont", "year": 1994, "genres": ["Drama"], "runtimeMinutes": 142, "rating": 9.3, "cast": ["Tim Robbins", "Morgan Freeman"], "boxOffice": 58300000, "poster": "https://picsum.photos/seed/movie1/300/450"}' \
  -H "X-TestingApis-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response200 OK

{
  "message": "Movie updated successfully",
  "data": {
    "id": 26,
    "title": "The Shawshank Redemption",
    "director": "Frank Darabont",
    "year": 1994,
    "genres": ["Drama"],
    "runtimeMinutes": 142,
    "rating": 9.3,
    "cast": ["Tim Robbins", "Morgan Freeman"],
    "boxOffice": 58300000,
    "poster": "https://picsum.photos/seed/movie1/300/450"
  }
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curl -X PUT 'https://api.testingapis.com/api/Movies/26' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'X-TestingApis-Key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '{"title": "The Shawshank Redemption", "director": "Frank Darabont", "year": 1994, "genres": ["Drama"], "runtimeMinutes": 142, "rating": 9.3, "cast": ["Tim Robbins", "Morgan Freeman"], "boxOffice": 58300000, "poster": "https://picsum.photos/seed/movie1/300/450"}'

const res = await fetch("https://api.testingapis.com/api/Movies/26", {
  method: "PUT",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
  body: "{\"title\": \"The Shawshank Redemption\", \"director\": \"Frank Darabont\", \"year\": 1994, \"genres\": [\"Drama\"], \"runtimeMinutes\": 142, \"rating\": 9.3, \"cast\": [\"Tim Robbins\", \"Morgan Freeman\"], \"boxOffice\": 58300000, \"poster\": \"https://picsum.photos/seed/movie1/300/450\"}",
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

const res = await fetch("https://api.testingapis.com/api/Movies/26", {
  method: "PUT",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
  body: "{\"title\": \"The Shawshank Redemption\", \"director\": \"Frank Darabont\", \"year\": 1994, \"genres\": [\"Drama\"], \"runtimeMinutes\": 142, \"rating\": 9.3, \"cast\": [\"Tim Robbins\", \"Morgan Freeman\"], \"boxOffice\": 58300000, \"poster\": \"https://picsum.photos/seed/movie1/300/450\"}",
});
const body: string = await res.text();
console.log(res.status, body);

import requests

res = requests.put(
    "https://api.testingapis.com/api/Movies/26",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    },
    data="{\"title\": \"The Shawshank Redemption\", \"director\": \"Frank Darabont\", \"year\": 1994, \"genres\": [\"Drama\"], \"runtimeMinutes\": 142, \"rating\": 9.3, \"cast\": [\"Tim Robbins\", \"Morgan Freeman\"], \"boxOffice\": 58300000, \"poster\": \"https://picsum.photos/seed/movie1/300/450\"}",
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)

using System.Net.Http.Headers;

using var client = new HttpClient();
using var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Put, "https://api.testingapis.com/api/Movies/26");
request.Headers.TryAddWithoutValidation("X-TestingApis-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY");
request.Content = new StringContent("{\"title\": \"The Shawshank Redemption\", \"director\": \"Frank Darabont\", \"year\": 1994, \"genres\": [\"Drama\"], \"runtimeMinutes\": 142, \"rating\": 9.3, \"cast\": [\"Tim Robbins\", \"Morgan Freeman\"], \"boxOffice\": 58300000, \"poster\": \"https://picsum.photos/seed/movie1/300/450\"}");
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/Movies/26"))
                .header("X-TestingApis-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
                .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
                .method("PUT", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString("{\"title\": \"The Shawshank Redemption\", \"director\": \"Frank Darabont\", \"year\": 1994, \"genres\": [\"Drama\"], \"runtimeMinutes\": 142, \"rating\": 9.3, \"cast\": [\"Tim Robbins\", \"Morgan Freeman\"], \"boxOffice\": 58300000, \"poster\": \"https://picsum.photos/seed/movie1/300/450\"}"))
                .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\": \"The Shawshank Redemption\", \"director\": \"Frank Darabont\", \"year\": 1994, \"genres\": [\"Drama\"], \"runtimeMinutes\": 142, \"rating\": 9.3, \"cast\": [\"Tim Robbins\", \"Morgan Freeman\"], \"boxOffice\": 58300000, \"poster\": \"https://picsum.photos/seed/movie1/300/450\"}")
	req, err := http.NewRequest("PUT", "https://api.testingapis.com/api/Movies/26", 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))
}

PUThttps://api.testingapis.com/api/Movies/26

Path

idrequiredinteger (int32)