Great, thanks Jan. I'll take a look at util.js and see if I can make anything of it.
Thanks again, Anthony On Aug 20, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2013, at 22:49 , Anthony Kaufman <anthony.kauf...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I finally gave up and just compiled my CoffeeScripts to Javascript before I >> saved them into Couch. That way I can maintain the scripts in CoffeeScript >> (which I like), and store them as Javascript (which CouchDB apparently >> likes). I had a script which was automating the save anyway so this wasn't >> too tricky (now I'm just bragging). >> >> I still think that this could be a real live bug, or lack of a feature >> anyway. Where would be the best place to report something like that? > > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB :) > > Thanks! > > I agree this is a bug and should be fixed. Maybe > https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/master/share/server/util.js#L13 and > following give you a clue why this might fail in CS? > > Best > Jan > -- > >> >> Thanks, Anthony >> >> On Aug 16, 2013, at 2:03 PM, Anthony Kaufman <anthony.kauf...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I've been trying to define a CoffeeScript CommonJS Module Function without >>> success. I can translate the same function into Javascript and it works >>> fine. I'm using CouchDB 1.3.1 on Mac OS X Lion. >>> >>> Here's the CoffeeScript document: >>> { >>> _id: "_design/test", >>> language: "coffeescript", >>> lib: { >>> say_hello: "exports.callback = (name) -> 'Hello ' + name" >>> } >>> test: { >>> map: "(doc) -> >>> say_hello = require('views/lib/say_hello').callback >>> emit(say_hello(doc._id), doc)" >>> } >>> } >>> >>> When ran, it returns the following errors for each document: >>> function raised exception (new TypeError("say_hello is not a function", >>> "undefined", 5)) with doc._id >>> >>> Here's the Javascript document which works just fine: >>> { >>> _id: "_design/test", >>> language: "javascript", >>> lib: { >>> say_hello: "exports.callback = function(name) { return 'Hello ' >>> + name }" >>> } >>> test: { >>> map: "function(doc) { say_hello = >>> require('views/lib/say_hello').callback; emit(say_hello(doc._id), doc) }" >>> } >>> } >>> >>> Currently, I have all of my views in a real document defined in >>> CoffeeScript and I'd really rather not convert them all to Javascript. Any >>> help would be appreciated. >>> >>> - Anthony >> >
