I do something similar. Here it is in case anyone wants to look at it from a
slightly different code perspective.
/* underscore and underscore string are not needed, just my preference */
var _ = require('underscore')._,
_s = require('underscore-string'),
globalKeys = ['_id', '_rev', 'template', 'type', 'permissions'];
exports.edit = function (doc, req) {
/* add values from request */
_.each(req.form, function(val, key) {
if (globalKeys.indexOf(key) === -1) {
try {
doc[key].value = JSON.parse(req.form[key]);
}
catch (e) {
if (typeof doc[key] !== 'undefined') {
doc[key].value = req.form[key];
}
}
}
});
return [doc, {
code: 200,
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
body: JSON.stringify('render to template or return success')
}];
};
You simply post to '_update/edit/docid' with form content.
Jeff Charette | Principal
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On Mar 25, 2013, at 12:46 PM, "Pearce, Martyn" <[email protected]> wrote:
> thanks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Hahn [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 4:45 PM
> To: user
> Cc: CouchDB Developers
> Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code topics
>
> Here is the code in a gist .. https://gist.github.com/mark-hahn/5238514
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Pearce, Martyn <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Posting it here would be a great start. That would imply permission for
>> interested parties to post it on an examples page, I think.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Hahn [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 3:59 PM
>> To: user
>> Cc: CouchDB Developers
>> Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code topics
>>
>> How would you suggest I publish it? I don't have a blog. I guess I could
>> post it here for now. It's not very big.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Pearce, Martyn <[email protected]
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> It would be a great published example/howto if you were willing to
>> publish
>>> your code for that.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Mark Hahn [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 6:14 PM
>>> To: user
>>> Cc: CouchDB Developers
>>> Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code topics
>>>
>>>> Implement partial reads and updates of documents,
>>>
>>> In case anyone didn't know, you can do partial updates right now with an
>>> update handler. I have been using one for some time that allows the app
>> to
>>> modify any part of a doc with a single http request. It even allows one
>> to
>>> modify an attribute nested inside objects. I've ended up using only this
>>> for all updates.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Jeff Charette <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My top 3 for couchapps:
>>>>
>>>> 1. more robust _rewrites module to do things like, possibly introduce
>>>> regex matching
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14839422/rewrite-without-file-extension-in-couchdb
>>>> 2. doc level security
>>>> 3. with secure_rewrites true, _attachments handler moved to design doc
>>>> level /db/_design/doc/_attachments - like an update handler
>>>> - database level _users, so /db/_design/doc/_users - behaves
>> just
>>>> like /_users
>>>>
>>>> Sorry if any of this is pathetically naive!
>>>> Jeff Charette | Principal
>>>> We Are Charette
>>>> web / identity / packaging
>>>>
>>>> m 415.298.2707
>>>> w wearecharette.com
>>>> e [email protected]
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 22, 2013, at 7:13 AM, Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> GSOC[1][2] registration for ASF closes this weekend, and we'd like to
>>>>> get some proposals into it, viz
>> http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
>>>>> from last year.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you reply, please do so just to the dev@ list -- note I BCC'd
>>>>> users@ for some ideas.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've got a few suggestions to get the ball rolling, with numbers
>> where
>>>>> taken from the future features list:
>>>>> https://gist.github.com/rnewson/2387973
>>>>>
>>>>> 6. implement a Domain-Specific Language to run within the Erlang VM,
>>>>> to support native speed filtering, validation, and indexing in
>>>>> addition to the current in-built JS and erlang ones. Maybe something
>>>>> that includes http://jsonselect.org/
>>>>>
>>>>> 8/9. Rewire CouchDB's HTTP layer to support websockets and spdy. I
>>>>> think this implies switching to cowboy, this could be too messy.
>>>>>
>>>>> 12. Extend CouchDB's query model (e.g.
>>>>> https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/querylanguage)
>> to
>>>>> support a richer syntax.
>>>>>
>>>>> 13/14. Implement partial reads and updates of documents,
>>>>>
>>>>> Make the javascript view engine faster. Could include v8 bindings,
>>>>> different / parallel communication approaches between erlang and
>>>>> javascript worlds, avoiding reparsing JSON roundtrips, and make it
>>>>> faster than the current spidermonkey implementation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Implement external storage of attachments and appropriate HTTP API
>>>>> hooks incl replication to allow hosting attachments outside the
>> .couch
>>>>> files, either on local storage, or in cloud blob storage (S3, azure
>>>>> etc).
>>>>>
>>>>> Implement a view development sandbox, where you can easily prototype
>>>>> with a sub-set of documents without long build times.
>>>>>
>>>>> Add an optional HTTP compression layer to CouchDB. It would be really
>>>>> cool if you could do the compression during doc update (or view
>>>>> creation or something) so that it can be served directly next time.
>>>>> See https://github.com/lgerbarg/couchdb/tree/gzip-support for a
>> prior
>>>>> implementation or https://gist.github.com/archaelus/76455 for a
>>>>> file-based approach, and
>>>>>
>>> http://visualstart.blogspot.co.at/2012/02/mochiweb-erlang-and-gzip.html
>>>>> for some other ideas.
>>>>>
>>>>> Develop a plugin API & rework the authentication layer to allow
>>>>> plugging in ErLDAP, nodejs with EveryAuth or PassportJS or in fact
>>>>> anything you like.
>>>>>
>>>>> Extend geocouch and/or couchdb with some of Volker's ideas (cue
>>>>> Volker). Or stuff like quadtrees, geohashes or hilbert curves.
>>>>>
>>>>> Finally, if you are interested in being a mentor, please speak up!
>>>>>
>>>>> A+
>>>>> Dave
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
>>>>> [2]:
>>>>
>>>
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/google-summer-of-code-discuss/yYM2ru4bTeo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
