I like the idea of displaying more information in the basic greeting,
but I would really like to be able to customize the greeting, allowing
me to optionally display (or not display) 'servername', 'dbmodified',
etc. Could some sort of template, or config file be incorporated to
customize such greetings?
-tim
Alan Bell wrote:
When couchdb gets a request for / it responds with
{"couchdb":"welcome","version":"0.7.3a797"}
could it instead respond with something like:
{"couchdb":"welcome","version":"0.7.3a797","servername":"Alan's OLPC
XO laptop","dbmodified":"20070315 10:12:13","docmodified":"20070317
21:00:00"}
with whatever syntax timestamps are supposed to be in.
dbmodified would be the last date a database was added or removed from
the server
docmodified would be the last date a document was modified in any (non
excluded) database on the server
This would mean that one couchdb server could easily see if another
server has any new databases it might want to replicate with and it
would be able to see if there have been any updates since the last
time. Each server would maintain a database of other servers it knows
about along with their dbmodifed and docmodified dates. Basically
store the responses it gets from other servers as couchdb documents.
This would then be used to automatically discover databases to
replicate with and would allow a lightweight check to see if it is
worth replicating now. I want to get to a point of opportunistic
realtime replication over a wireless mesh network.
Alan.
