Thanks. What about validate_doc_update? My goal was to check a hashed key in the document submitted by a user by comparing the key with a stored document when the validate_doc_update is called.
-Sam On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: > I was just reading this (at > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Formatting_with_Show_and_List); > > "Show and list functions are side effect free and idempotent. *They > can not make additional HTTP requests against CouchDB*. Their purpose > is to render JSON documents in other formats." > > So they can't, and it's intentional. > > B. > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Samuel Wan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is there a way to do an http request within the server-side _show or >> _view functions, or is the JS context limited to what's defined by >> Spidermonkey and main.js? My understanding is that Spidermonkey >> doesn't provide an xmlhttprequest object. >> >> Also, does CouchDB ship with an interactive javascript shell, or do >> you have to build and install your own? I found the couchjs >> executable, but it only interprets javascript files. >> >> -Sam >> >
