I still think you can use update handlers for that...just send the doc over the wire... Parse it and save it in the db with the current revision of the current doc if it exists...you. Can't do this in bulk... And I think what you're trying to Dave is the round trip... Which the update handler gives you... On Nov 8, 2013 12:54 PM, "Daniel Nephin" <dnep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Isn't this the default behaviour? > > All you need to update a document is it's '_id'. Since this is a data > warehouse, I assume the ID is already being set by the transaction system, > so you don't need to do a lookup. If you PUT a document ( > http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/api/document/common.html#put--db-docid) > using > it's ID, it will replace the previous revision. > > Am I missing something? > > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Robert Newson <rnew...@apache.org> wrote: > > > There is not, not even update handlers can do that, by design. > > > > B. > > > > > > On 8 November 2013 17:41, Stanley Iriele <siriele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Update handlers sound like the way to go here.... > > > On Nov 8, 2013 9:39 AM, "Alex Ramos" <i2...@alexramos.net> wrote: > > > > > >> Is there any way to unconditionally overwrite a document without first > > >> making a round-trip to get the current rev? > > >> > > >> I'm trying to use CouchDB as a data warehouse of sorts and I just need > > to > > >> overwrite docs with data coming from the transactional system of > record > > (in > > >> MySQL) when they change. > > >> > > >
