POST on a doc with the wrong id gives an obtuse error -----------------------------------------------------
Key: COUCHDB-1104 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1104 Project: CouchDB Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 1.0.2 Environment: Linux Reporter: Thomas Vander Stichele Priority: Minor Had this problem during a couchdb training. [thomas@otto ~]$ curl -X GET http://localhost:5984/bank/_all_docs{"total_rows":5,"offset":0,"rows":[ {"id":"fe4a1382596a9071d66412f9f100183c","key":"fe4a1382596a9071d66412f9f100183c","value":{"rev":"1-1e3f1ca41010f7cc641337fa3ea88593"}}, {"id":"fe4a1382596a9071d66412f9f1001c67","key":"fe4a1382596a9071d66412f9f1001c67","value":{"rev":"1-ea8b064f341943d19776e63201b6d0c4"}}, {"id":"fe4a1382596a9071d66412f9f1002209","key":"fe4a1382596a9071d66412f9f1002209","value":{"rev":"1-1c8d66f0baf7b022a63d62b99db5f133"}}, {"id":"fe4a1382596a9071d66412f9f1002da8","key":"fe4a1382596a9071d66412f9f1002da8","value":{"rev":"2-2d03d5121b4df02423cece5432de16cc"}}, {"id":"fe4a1382596a9071d66412f9f100388a","key":"fe4a1382596a9071d66412f9f100388a","value":{"rev":"1-e194aaf299e9ac452d2db072584271f6"}} ]} [thomas@otto ~]$ curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type:image/jpeg" "http://localhost:5984/bank/fe4a1382596a9071d66412f9f100183c/picture.jpg?rev=2-2d03d5121b4df02423cece5432de16cc" --data-binary @ik/thomasvs.jpg {"error":"{not_found,missing}","reason":"{2,<<45,3,213,18,27,77,240,36,35,206,206,84,50,222,22,204>>}"} [thomas@otto ~]$ curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type:image/jpeg" "http://localhost:5984/bank/fe4a1382596a9071d66412f9f100183c/picture.jpg?rev=1-1e3f1ca41010f7cc641337fa3ea88593" --data-binary @ik/thomasvs.jpg {"ok":true,"id":"fe4a1382596a9071d66412f9f100183c","rev":"2-650721e13f38e481e1839525cf0caa56"} The second command (first put) gives an unreadable reason. The reason is I supplied a non-existing revid for that doc. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira