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# Retrieving All Books - Planning

Refer back to [*Chapter 6, The Bookstore API Endpoint Specifications, API Endpoint #5: Retrieve All Book Listings*](/part-3/chapter-6/1-the-bookstore-api-endpoint-specifications.md#api-endpoint-5-retrieve-all-book-listings) section for the API endpoint specifications.

## 1 - Route Name

From the specification, it seems like this will be a `GET` request that will fetch a collection of books. We can refer back to the sections under chapter 3 for guidelines to follow, specifically the sections [*Method Verbs*](/part-2/chapter-3/3-method-verbs.md) and [*URI Design*](/part-2/chapter-3/2-uri-design.md).

The following URI should suffice.

`GET /api/v1/books`

## 2 - Input Request

Since this is a `GET` request, there won't be any input request or payload from the client.

## 3 - Middleware

This is a public URI, so there really is no need for any middleware.

## 4 - Validation

Again, since this is just a simple `GET` request, there won't be any validation needed.

## 5 - Domain

From the specifications, it looks like we will need the following book entity in our domain layer.

**bookModel**

* `title`
* `description`
* `price`
* `author`
* `datePublished`

We will also need some sort of way to query the database to be able to retrieve all the books, `getAllBooks()` will be the method we'd call.

**bookRepository**

* `getAll()`

On top of that, our controller will call a service, in this case, it will be the `bookService` which will retrieve all of the books in our database.

**bookService**

* `getAllBooks()`

This is a rough outline of how we are going to be implementing these functions, we'll take a deeper dive at the implementations in the next section of this chapter.

## 6 - Events

Judging from the specifications, there doesn't seem to be any events, so we'll leave this blank as well.

## 7 - Response

As mentioned previous, we will be ["Using a Consistently Wrapped Response"](/part-2/chapter-3/5-representational-design.md#using-a-consistently-wrapped-response).

We'll be adding in these fields:

* `title`
* `description`
* `price`
* `author`
* `datePublished`

for each of our book listings.

```json
{
    "status": "success",
    "code": 200,
    "message": "List of all books in the database."
    "data": [
        {
            "id": "61f88350745d83158f3c746d",
            "title": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire",
            "description": "Mint condition, but will negotiate",
            "price": 99,
            "author": "J.K. Rowling",
            "datePublished": "Sun Oct 10 2021 23:56:34 GMT-0400"
        },
        ...
    ],
    "errors": null
}
```


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