On 13 Sep 2009, at 10:12, Vlad GURDIGA wrote:
It seams intuitive that _show actually shows you something and does
not handle update actions.
On the other hand why would we need an _update thing? Doesn't CouchDB
handle that itself?
(Excuse me if the question is stupid, I was not on #couchdb at the
time when this discussion took place.)
No worries, this is the only forum where dev-issues like this should
be discussed, you don't need an excuse for not being on IRC :)
The _update handler can take an arbitrary content and turn it into
a document. Like an XML doc, or HTML form and so on.
Cheers
Jan
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On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Benoit Chesneau
<[email protected]> wrote:
Following our discussion with jan____ and jchris on irc i'm asking
here my question if having POST/PUT on _show wouldn't be enough
rather
than having a special handler for this. Main raison about it, would
be
that it would me more restful. Imho it also offers a simple API on
client side.
jan__ args that it would mess the api. And indeed if you accept
POST/PUT you need to say to couchdb what you return (doc, http
response, newdoc ...). I guess defaults could be POST = new doc,
PUT =
update doc like current api on /db/docid, maybe ther is a smart way
to
handle it. I was thinking to something like sammyjs, with get/post/
put
response and filter on Accept format which is now handle by
respondWith.
What do you think about it ? The proper point is to replace or skip
the need of another handler and make it more simple/restful.
- benoit
