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Jan Lehnardt updated COUCHDB-41: -------------------------------- Priority: Blocker (was: Minor) bumping to blocker as this is an API change. > Differentiate between not existent database and not existant document in > response on 404 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: COUCHDB-41 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-41 > Project: CouchDB > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: HTTP Interface > Environment: CouchDB 0.7.2 > Reporter: Kore Nordmann > Assignee: Jan Lehnardt > Priority: Blocker > > Currently it is not possible to know from a request on a not existent > document in the database, if the database does not exist, or if it is just > the document which is missing. > It would be nice to have this information in the response JSON structure, so > that the application using the CouchDB could handle such errors more > gracefully. An extract from a CouchDB interaction showing the problem: > == Ensure database is absent > DELETE /test HTTP/1.0 > Host: localhost > HTTP/1.0 404 Object Not Found > Server: inets/develop > Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:54:20 GMT > Cache-Control: no-cache > Pragma: no-cache > Expires: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:54:20 GMT > Connection: close > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 > {"error":"not_found","reason":"missing"} > == Try GET on absent database > GET /test/not_existant HTTP/1.0 > Host: localhost > HTTP/1.0 404 Object Not Found > Server: inets/develop > Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:54:20 GMT > Cache-Control: no-cache > Pragma: no-cache > Expires: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:54:20 GMT > Connection: close > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 > {"error":"not_found","reason":"missing"} > == Create database, but not the document > PUT /test HTTP/1.0 > Host: localhost > HTTP/1.0 201 Created > Server: inets/develop > Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:54:20 GMT > Cache-Control: no-cache > Pragma: no-cache > Expires: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:54:20 GMT > Connection: close > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 > {"ok":true} > == Try to fetch document again > GET /test/not_existant HTTP/1.0 > Host: localhost > HTTP/1.0 404 Object Not Found > Server: inets/develop > Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:54:20 GMT > Cache-Control: no-cache > Pragma: no-cache > Expires: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:54:20 GMT > Connection: close > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 > {"error":"not_found","reason":"missing"} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.