I was simply looking at the couchdb log (debug level) for some other
information in the request object and saw "uuid".
On 28 July 2010 09:29, Alux <alu...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Ah, thats pretty!
>
> Many thanks Martin, that makes it feel much more couchy!
>
> How did you discover that? I'm very impressed!
>
> Thanks again, and nice day,
>
> alux
>
>
> On 28 July 2010 10:21, Martin Higham <mar...@ocasta.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > I had the same problem and was about to embark on a similar solution when
> I
> > discovered that the req object passed into the update handler contains a
> > uuid for you to use. So all you need to do is
> >
> > function(doc, req) {
> > var newDoc = JSON.parse(req.body);
> > if (!doc){
> > newDoc._id = req.uuid;
> > ...
> >
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> >
> > On 28 July 2010 09:01, Alux <alu...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > after some funny result I now am able to create documents with an
> update
> > > handler. I want to use usual couchy ids, and didnt know how to get the
> > (in
> > > one step, that is), so I did created one in JavaScript as below. Is
> this
> > > sensible? I'm a newbee, so comments are very welcome.
> > >
> > > Kind regards, alux
> > >
> > > ------
> > >
> > > function(doc, req) {
> > > start({'headers': {'Content-Type': 'text/html'}});
> > > var maxStr = 'ffffffffff';
> > > var max = parseInt(maxStr, 16);
> > > var r1=Math.floor(Math.random()*max);
> > > var r2=Math.floor(Math.random()*max);
> > > var r3=Math.floor(Math.random()*max);
> > > var r4=Math.floor(Math.random()*max);
> > > var rstr = r1.toString(16) + r2.toString(16) +
> r3.toString(16)
> > +
> > > r4.toString(16);
> > > var id = rstr.substr(0,32);
> > > doc = {_id: id};
> > > doc.type = 'note';
> > > var message = '<html><body><h3>Created new document with
> id='
> > +
> > > id + '</h3>' +
> > > '<a href=\'' +id+ '\'>Enter the new
> > > document.</a></body></html>';
> > > return [doc, message];
> > > }
> > >
> > > Remarks:
> > >
> > > 1. This update handler shall be called from a browser with HTTP POST
> from
> > a
> > > form, it returns HTML for the browser.
> > > 2. The four steps of random generation are because Math.random
> generates
> > > not
> > > very long numbers, and toString() removes leading zeros. So this should
> > be
> > > rather safe.
> > >
> >
>
