On 23 Apr 2010, at 13:52, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I've been thinking of putting together some kind of broadcast mechanism for > propagating updates - but I gather that there's pretty much no documentation > of the replication protocol other than what's in the code itself. > > I wonder if anybody has pulled together, in any form, either: > > - notes on the replication process (step-by-step, what happens when > replication is invoked - what code modules are involved and so forth), and/or,
I found it helpful in the past to set the CouchDB log level to debug, start replication and watch the logs on both ends. It shows you which HTTP requests are made and some more info. Not that this is a conclusive answer and I welcome your request for better internal docs. We're just not there yet. That said, any help is appreciated :) Cheers Jan -- > > - an overview of the code for someone new to the project - what lives in what > modules, how they string together - anything that might shortcut having to > read through every module and make sense of things from scratch > > Anything - handwritten notes, slides from a code walkthrough, that kind of > thing. > > Thanks very much, > > Miles Fidelman > > -- > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > In<fnord> practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra > >
