On Apr 20, 2010, at 7:29 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I've been looking, but can't seem to find any good documentation of the > inter-node protocol used for replication. > > I've been thinking of playing with a multi-cast alternative to the current > pair-wise replication model - but, of course, that's hard to do without > visibility into the format of the messages exchanged during replication. > > Miles Fidelman
As far as I know, the best source for documentation is the code, right now. My reservation about the replication protocol is that it is more brittle than JSON (it requires some exact string matches in the source). With an event-based JSON parser, we could accept any valid JSON instead of hard coding the output of replicators. One thing that strikes me is that if we had a browser-based test for the replicator protocol, we could clean this up substantially. This test suite would be a great contribution from anyone out there wanting to learn the replicator really well, but you might need to collaborate with someone to help get the tests to pass, in places. This is the hard coding (in Ruby) I had to add, to used the CouchDB replicator to pull from the Booth server: http://github.com/jchris/booth/commit/2deff74e03838a6e7ef95b725c4342a08239a2b8#commitcomment-68685 This is fine if we're just trying to replicate between CouchDB instances, but a challenge for people building interoperable replicators. Chris > > -- > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > In<fnord> practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra > >
