couchupsert

A tool to assist for inserting or updating CouchDB Design Documnents. It provides a command line and API interfaces as well in order to use it manually, or automatically from your application or CI tools.

Installation

npm install -g safe-couch-design-doc-upserter

Usage

Create a JSON file with your design document in e.g. dd.json

{
    "_id": "_design/fetch",
    "views": {
        "byx": {
            "map": "function (doc) {\n  emit(doc.x, doc.y);\n  }\n}",
            "reduce": "_stats"
        }
    },
    "language": "javascript"
}

or a JavaScript file that exports a design document object e.g.

var map = function(doc) {
  emit(doc.name, null);
};


module.exports = {
  _id: "_design/testy",
  views: {
    test1: {
      map: map.toString(),
      reduce: "_count"
    }
  }
};

Then setup environment variables to point to your instance of CouchDB

export COUCH_URL=http://127.0.0.1:5984

or

export COUCH_URL=https://myusername:[email protected]

Then run couchupsert:

couchupsert --dd dd.json --db mydatabase

• dd - the path to the file containing the design documnet
• db - the name of the database

(if the file extension of dd is '.json', it is expected to be a JSON document, if it ends in '.js' it is expected to be a JavaScript file that can be required in)

If the design document is already present and is identical to the one in the file, no migration will occur, otherwise

• copy old design document to _OLD
• import new design document to _NEW
• trigger the view to make sure it builds
• poll the view to see if it has finished building
• copy _NEW to the real design document name
• delete _NEW
• delete _OLD
• exit

In other words, couchmigrate will only return when the design document has been uploaded, built and has been moved into place.