Updating models

4. Updating models

🎯 Your goal for this step:

Update the MappedTrack model with a property that identifies its primary artist

Updating model tasks

Inspect the data returned for each track object in the Spotify REST API's playlist methodsIdentify the property you can use to identify each track's artistUpdate the MappedTrack model with a property to hold this value, as well as corresponding getter and setter methodsIn the setTrackProperties method, call the setter function, providing the identifier of the first artist in the track's artist array

Solution: Updating models

models/MappedTrack

public class MappedTrack extends Track {
  // ...other MappedTrack methods

  private String artistId;

  @JsonSetter("track")
  public void setTrackProperties(JsonNode trackObject) {
      // other setter method calls
      this.setArtistId(trackObject.get("artists").get(0).get("id").asText());
  }

  public void setArtistId(String artistId) {
      this.artistId = artistId;
  }

  public String getArtistId() {
      return this.artistId;
  }
}

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