fighting weird bug with branches

server/UpdateRoute.cs

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+using System.Net;
+using MySql.Data.MySqlClient;
+
+namespace Server;
+
+public class UpdateRoute : SecuredRoute
+{
+    //TODO create editied time on field in db for comments and posts
+    //TODO all updates need validation and deletes
+    protected static void UpdateDb(
+        HttpListenerRequest request,
+        string table,
+        List<string> validParamNames,
+        bool requireId
+    )
+    {
+        string user_id = ExtractUserId(request);
+        var bodyParamValues = ExtractBody(request, validParamNames);
+
+        if (requireId && bodyParamValues["id"] is null)
+            throw new Exception("missing id");
+
+        string temp = "";
+        foreach (var item in bodyParamValues)
+        {
+            temp += item.Key + "=\"" + item.Value + "\",";
+        }
+        // remove last chat from str
+        temp = temp[..^1];
+
+        validParamNames.Add("user_id");
+        bodyParamValues["user_id"] = user_id;
+
+        temp += requireId ? " WHERE user_id=@user_id AND id=@id;" : " WHERE user_id=@user_id;";
+
+        MySqlCommand cmd = new("UPDATE " + table + " SET " + temp);
+        cmd = AddValuesToCmd(bodyParamValues, cmd);
+
+        using MySqlConnection conn = new(connectionString);
+        conn.Open();
+        cmd.Connection = conn;
+        cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
+    }
+
+    protected static void UpdateLikes(
+        HttpListenerRequest request,
+        string table,
+        List<string> validParamNames,
+        bool requireId
+    )
+    {
+        var bodyParamValues = ExtractBody(request, validParamNames);
+        if (requireId && bodyParamValues["id"] is null)
+            throw new Exception("missing id");
+
+        string query = "SELECT likes from post Where id=@id;";
+        MySqlCommand cmd2 = new(query);
+        using MySqlConnection conn = new(connectionString);
+        cmd2.Connection = conn;
+        conn.Open();
+        cmd2.Parameters.AddWithValue("@id", bodyParamValues["id"]);
+        MySqlDataReader reader = cmd2.ExecuteReader();
+        string? id = "";
+        string? likes = "";
+        while (reader.Read())
+        {
+            id = Convert.ToString(reader["id"]);
+            likes = Convert.ToString(reader["likes"]);
+        }
+        Console.WriteLine(id);
+
+        query = "Update post SET likes=2 where id=1;";
+        MySqlCommand cmd = new(query);
+        cmd = AddValuesToCmd(bodyParamValues, cmd);
+
+        cmd.Connection = conn;
+        cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
+    }
+}