On Aug 16, 2011, at 8:20 PM, Randall Leeds wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 17:03, Adam Kocoloski <kocol...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Aug 16, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Randall Leeds wrote: >> >>> -1 on _skip_validation and new role >>> >>> One can always write a validation document that considers the role, no? >> Why >>> can't users who need this functionality craft a validation function for >> this >>> purpose? This sounds like a blog post and not a database feature. >> >> Blech, really? >> >> Q: What request do I issue to guarantee all my documents are stored in this >> other database? >> >> A: Unpossible. >> >> Practically speaking we need it at Cloudant because we use replication to >> move users' databases between clusters. If it's not seen as generally >> useful that's ok, just surprising. Best, >> > > I understand the motivation a little better now. I'm not sure it's generally > useful. I think _dump/_load might be, but I'd rather see users craft around > validation as part of their replication strategy rather than increase the > query option population. > > I'm not sure I'm against admin user context bypassing validation docs, > though.
That's interesting. It sounds like you're motivated to minimize the surface area of the API. I can respect that. I'm not sure I like _admins automatically bypassing validation, though, because we already require _admin to update _design docs, so it's not as if we can make the use of _admin particularly rare. Will think on it. Best, Adam
