On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 05:28:37PM +0100, Michael Stillwell wrote: >> Do you have to DELETE the URI then re-PUT it or is there a mechanism >> to update/version the design document? > > If you pass along the _rev of the *previous* version it will update as > you expect. See: > > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_Document_API > > "To update an existing document, you also issue a PUT request. In this > case, the JSON body must contain a _rev property, which lets CouchDB > know which revision the edits are based on." > > Otherwise, if retrieving _rev is awkward, you can DELETE and re-add.
I don't think this helps, because to DELETE a document you also need to provide the _rev, don't you?
