From bb3ff4493ac23ec9af296693e1f4dd3795f98b27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Parecki <aaron@parecki.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 13:02:22 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] support `/api/last` with no date

---
 README.md                            |  2 +-
 compass/app/Http/Controllers/Api.php | 10 +++++++++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 34419b6..6a58ea3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ To read a database, make a GET request as follows:
 `GET /api/last`
 * token - (required) the read token for the database
 * tz - (optional, default UTC) timezone string (e.g. America/Los_Angeles) which will be used to determine the absolute start/end times for the day
-* date - (optional) specify a full timestamp to return a single record before this date (the point returned will be no more than 24 hours before the given date)
+* date - (optional, default to now) specify a full timestamp to return a single record before this date (the point returned will be no more than 24 hours before the given date)
 * geocode - (optional) if "true", then the location found will be reverse geocoded using [Atlas](https://atlas.p3k.io) to find the city and timezone at the location
 
 
diff --git a/compass/app/Http/Controllers/Api.php b/compass/app/Http/Controllers/Api.php
index 059c720..fd0e623 100644
--- a/compass/app/Http/Controllers/Api.php
+++ b/compass/app/Http/Controllers/Api.php
@@ -137,9 +137,10 @@ class Api extends BaseController
         return response(json_encode(['error' => 'invalid date provided']))->header('Content-Type', 'application/json');
       }
     } else {
-      return response(json_encode(['error' => 'no date provided']))->header('Content-Type', 'application/json');
+      $date = new DateTime();
     }
 
+    /* ********************************************** */
     // TODO: move this logic into QuartzDB
 
     // Load the shard for the given date
@@ -164,6 +165,13 @@ class Api extends BaseController
         break;
       $record = $r;
     }
+    /* ********************************************** */
+
+    if(!$record) {
+      return response(json_encode([
+        'data'=>null
+      ]));
+    }
 
     $response = [
       'data' => $record->data