On Aug 2, 2009, at 5:10 AM, "Jason Davies (JIRA)" <[email protected]> wrote:


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Jason Davies commented on COUCHDB-441:
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Nice work Paul! One thing I noticed about your patch is that _update expects a JSON body in the request. Can we remove this requirement and make it so the function signature is simply (doc, req, userCtx)? In my oauth branch I've modified couch_httpd_external.erl to always populate req.userCtx so the function signature will be even shorter when this gets merged.

Then we can do fun things like handle XML bodies in the request.


Had not contemplated that. If we go that direction then we'll probably want to not have the docid in the URL as well. I'm not opposed so what ever general consensus is is fine with me.

Finally implement pre-write-doc-edit handlers.
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               Key: COUCHDB-441
               URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-441
           Project: CouchDB
        Issue Type: Improvement
        Components: HTTP Interface
  Affects Versions: 0.10
          Reporter: Curt Arnold
           Fix For: 0.10

       Attachments: COUCHDB-441.patch


It would be useful for auditing to have the identity of the user who inserted a new revision and the timestamp of the operation to be inserted in the document in the same way that the new revision number is. Doing this at the application level is not adequate since it would be readily spoofable and would bypass the authentication handler. There is a comment in couch_db:update_docs about generating new revision ids, but I couldn't quite comprehend what specific code was responsible for inserting the id into the document.

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