alert-message-center/apps/server/scripts/create_request.ts

// Simulate topic creation
import { client } from './client'; // This won't work in node script easily due to frontend dependencies

// Let's use fetch directly against the server
async function run() {
    console.log('Creating pending topic...');
    const res = await fetch('http://localhost:3000/api/topics', {
        method: 'POST',
        headers: {
            'Content-Type': 'application/json',
            // We need to bake a cookie. 
            // But we can't easily bake a signed cookie without the secret.
            // Wait, the cookies are not signed in the strict sense, just set.
            // But `middleware.ts` parses `JSON.parse(sessionCookie)`.

            // Let's fake a session cookie for a non-admin user.
            'Cookie': `session=${encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify({
                id: 'user_123',
                name: 'Test User',
                email: 'test@example.com',
                isAdmin: false
            }))}`
        },
        body: JSON.stringify({
            name: 'Test Pending Topic',
            slug: 'test-pending',
            description: 'This should be pending'
        })
    });

    if (res.ok) {
        const data = await res.json();
        console.log('Created topic:', data);
    } else {
        console.log('Error:', res.status, await res.text());
    }
}

run();