What is prototyping in system design phase? under what condition this approach is most suited? also what is the disadvantage of prototyping?

Develop a function to create a document in the mongodb database “city” in the collection “inspections.” be sure it can handle error conditions gracefully. a. input -> argument to function will be set of key/value pairs in the data type acceptable to the mongodb driver insert api call b. return -> true if successful insert else false (require a screenshot)