Wacky error responses to malformed documents
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Key: COUCHDB-306
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-306
Project: CouchDB
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 0.9
Reporter: Brian Candler
Priority: Minor
Here are some error conditions where CouchDB provides very strange responses.
---- Setup ----
$ curl -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:5984/foo
{"ok":true}
---- example 1 ----
$ curl -d "[]" -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:5984/foo/bar
{"error":"bad_request","reason":[68,111,99,117,109,101,110,116,32,109,117,115,116,32,98,101,32,97,32,74,83,79,78,32,111,98,106,101,99,116]}
---- example 2 ----
$ curl -d "[]" -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:5984/foo/_bulk_docs
-- TCP connection is dropped on the floor, no response (not even HTTP 500
status)
---- example 3 ----
$ curl -d "{}" -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5984/foo/bar
{"error":"badmatch","reason":"{\"application/x-www-form-urlencoded\",[]}"}
$ curl -d "{}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST
http://127.0.0.1:5984/foo/bar
{"error":"badmatch","reason":"{\"application/json\",[]}"}
---- example 4 ----
$ curl -d '[]' -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5984/foo/_all_docs
{"error":"badmatch","reason":""}
---- example 5 ----
$ curl -d '{"keys":"foo"}' -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5984/foo/_all_docs
{"error":"unknown_error","reason":"function_clause"}
Of course, all of these are misuse of the API, but they may be seen by
newcomers.
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