Reject documents whose ids start with underscore
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Key: COUCHDB-332
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-332
Project: CouchDB
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: HTTP Interface
Environment: 0.10.0a767851
Reporter: Brian Candler
Priority: Minor
docids which start with underscore are reserved for CouchDB. I believe they
should be rejected to avoid confusion.
Currently observed behaviour:
(1) an attempt to PUT to /db/_docid succeeds, and creates a document whose ID
starts with an underscore
$ curl -X PUT -d "{}" http://127.0.0.1:5984/foo/_xxx
{"ok":true,"id":"_xxx","rev":"1-1751372641"}
(2) a POST to /db/_docid tries to do something and fails; possibly it could
succeed given the right headers and body.
$ curl -X POST -d "{}" http://127.0.0.1:5984/foo/_yyy
{"error":"bad_content_type","reason":"Invalid Content-Type header for form
upload"}
-- status line show 415 Unsupported Media Type
This means that typos can result in confusing error messages; for example, a
POST to /db/_tmp_view instead of /db/_temp_view. IMO it would be cleaner first
to test the docid and reject it on that basis.
(Sorry, I am not including a test suite submission. It will be much easier for
someone who already knows their way around the rather large set of private
libraries which the test suite contains. I currently use Ruby to talk to
CouchDB, not ECMAscript)
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