Week 2: Ok, Boomer :neutral_face:

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Week 2 Step 8 ⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤ | 🕐 Estimated completion: 5-10 minutes

Ok, Boomer :neutral_face:

✅ Task:

Modify your Azure Function so that it texts the user back with a song.

• [ ] 1: Retrieve song url from a JSON object

  const songs = {"GenZ":"https://open.spotify.com/track/0SIAFU49FFHwR3QnT5Jx0k?si=1c12067c9f2b4fbf", 
  "GenY":"https://open.spotify.com/track/1Je1IMUlBXcx1Fz0WE7oPT?si=a04bbdf6ec4948b9", 
  "GenX":"https://open.spotify.com/track/4Zau4QvgyxWiWQ5KQrwL43?si=790d9e3ef2ed408d", 
  "BabyBoomers":"https://open.spotify.com/track/4gphxUgq0JSFv2BCLhNDiE?si=1abb329f2dc24f50", 
  "Unknown":"https://open.spotify.com/track/5ygDXis42ncn6kYG14lEVG?si=84b49b41d09d4d11"}

• [ ] 2: Use ${} to quickly insert strings
• [ ] 3: Return the url with a personalized message in the body of the request formatted like

  We guessed you're part of this generation: [insert generation]! Happy listening! [song link]`

• [ ] 4: Commit your updated code to song4u/index.js in the song4u branch, and only merge the pull request when the bot approves your changes!

🚧 Test Your Work

To test your work, try texting a jpg image to your Twilio number (with a face!). You should receive a text back that contains the required message format.

Example:

Sent from your Twilio trial account - We guessed you're part of this generation: GenZ! Happy listening! https://open.spotify.com/track/0SIAFU49FFHwR3QnT5Jx0k?si=1c12067c9f2b4fbf

Working with JSON

JSON has keys and values. In our case, the generation is the key, and the url is the value.

See if you can determine the url with this syntax:

let value = json_object[key]

Shortcuts with Strings

You might be used to concatenating strings and variables like this:

let string = "Hello " + name

That can get tiring, though. Try this syntax:

let string = `Hello ${name}`

📹 Walkthrough Video

[counselorbot[bot]]

🛑 There was an error: Try again! We received 'We guessed you're part of this generation: GenY! Happy listening! https://open.spotify.com/track/1Je1IMUlBXcx1Fz0WE7oPT?si=a04bbdf6ec4948b9!' instead of the correct response, 'We guessed you're part of this generation: GenY! Happy listening! https://open.spotify.com/track/1Je1IMUlBXcx1Fz0WE7oPT?si=a04bbdf6ec4948b9'. 🛑

[counselorbot[bot]]

Providing Feedback

What was confusing about this week? If you could change or add something to this week, what would you do? Your feedback is valued and appreciated!

[saniazkhaja]

I think trying to get the Face API to work was the most confusing and that was just due to the part that Microsoft had changed its policies. I liked the explanations given in the video of why we were doing each code section and what certain key words meant. I would like if these explanations continued and were added more in the videos. I feel like it also would help slow down the pace a little while also allowing us to absorb more knowledge over what we are doing.

[counselorbot[bot]]

⏰ Time to merge!

Go ahead and merge this branch to main to move on. Great work finishing this section!

⚠️ If you receive a Conflicts error, simply press Resolve conflicts and you should be good to merge!

[counselorbot[bot]]

That's it for Week 2, move on to Week 3 in your new issue!