This week I had only one major objective, which was to complete the new Stock Take module.
After constructing the detail view layout last week, I began this week by creating the layout for the Stock Take list view. The List view will display all of the created stock takes. However, as no data had yet been received from the API, I had to continue developing the detail view.
Furthermore, I needed to retrieve data from the API in the detail view.
It took me quite a while time to input the data and review the list of stock takes. One major issue I had was that I couldn’t make a successful Post request to create the stock stake and kept failing at it. One of the reasons was that I had no validations for the barcode and other data.
I was able to create the validators. By doing so, as well as accessing the API to retrieve item data, I was able to debug the problem more easily than previously. Furthermore, it took some time for me to create the POST request and ensure that the data was correctly sent to the database.
Continue back to the list page, where I was able to access the list of created Stock takes after successfully retrieving the data. In addition, I wanted to utilise the getStockTakeById request to view or modify a particular stock take. And after some effort with the code, I was able to successfully get it to function, allowing me to access the stock take and make any changes.
By the end of the week, I believed I was nearly finished since it appeared functional to me. However, because of a conflict with the API, I was required to map the data manually from one type to another. This was totally new to me since I had very blurry vision on it, studying that and implement it correctly is the next thing to do.