This thing was long awaited! Thank you for the effort, Benoît!
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Benoit Chesneau <bchesn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I created a branch* based on trunk on my Github repository that > allows url rewriting in CouchDB: > > http://github.com/benoitc/couchdb/tree/rewrite > > The design is very simple. Everything is managed via a simple > javascript function that return a path or throw 'forbidden', > 'unauthorized' and "not found" errors. The request object is passed to > the function and then depending on the path, verb or userCtx you could > decide how to rewrite the path. All relatives path are relative to > design doc. > > The _rewriter is available at db or _design level : > > /db/_rewrite/designname/path > > or > > /db/_design/designame/_rewrite/path. > > > Then _rewrite handler look in design doc if `rewrite` member exists > and load the function. > > Little snippets from tests : > > function(req) { > path = "/" + req.path.join('/'); > > if (path == "/forbidden") { > throw { > forbidden: > "path forbidden" > }; > } > if (path == "/unauthorized") { > throw { > unauthorized: > "path not authorized" > }; > } > if (path == "/notfound") { > throw { > not_found: > "path not found" > }; > } > > if (path == "/foo") { > return "foo.txt" > } > > var matches = path.match(/^\/hello\/(\w.+)$/); > > if (matches[1]) { > if (req.verb == "DELETE") { > throw { > forbidden: > "delete is forbidden" > }; > } > return "_update/hello/" + matches[1]; > } > } > > > let me know if it's ok for you, > > - benoît >
