On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 26 Feb 2009, at 09:03, Brian Candler wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 07:07:11AM -0600, Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T wrote: >>>> >>>> CouchDB dodges this at present, since you can't download a document >>>> together >>>> with its attachments. >>> >>> what about ?attachments=true or am I misunderstanding you? >> >> This is new to me - such feature doesn't seem to be mentioned at >> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_Document_API, where it says: >> >> "When retrieving documents, the attachment's actual data is not included, >> only the metadata. The actual data has to be fetched separately, using a >> special URI." >> >> However I do see "attachments=true" in couch_rep.erl. Is this something >> internal/private for replication? > > This is an omission in the documentation. I added it to the wiki now with > a note that you should not use it :) I think the plan forward is to add an > API > where documents and attachments can be transferred in a single HTTP > request using a multipart mime request. This will speed up replication, Not immediately apparent that this is true, only if mime encode/decode is faster than json encode/decode
> fix handling replication with large attachments and makes it possible to > create a document and a set of attachments without going through > intermediate revisions. I am doing this currently, the recent fix to mochiweb of the 1MB body regression allows one to upload document + attachments in a single revision -- you need to base64 the attachment and set the attributes, but it works. My dump/load code does it quite nicely. > Regards, Jeff Hinrichs
