+1 for since=now, it conveys the right impression. On 22 Jun 2012, at 16:54, Benoit Chesneau (JIRA) wrote:
> > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1501?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13399396#comment-13399396 > ] > > Benoit Chesneau commented on COUCHDB-1501: > ------------------------------------------ > > I was thinking we could have `/db/_changes?since=now` . Lot of users are > using this pattern and if it can be done in one request it would be cool. I > don't see any reason to not have it. > > >> Add flag to the changes API to return only new changes >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Key: COUCHDB-1501 >> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1501 >> Project: CouchDB >> Issue Type: New Feature >> Components: JavaScript View Server >> Affects Versions: 1.2 >> Reporter: Daniel Gonzalez >> Priority: Minor >> Labels: changes, http >> >> As discussed in this thread: >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/201206.mbox/%3CCAAOi-OHB6%3DYu%2Bt%3DWkiFAypQAfnv%3DQd-PL4tELZNL1C1-TQvtWw%40mail.gmail.com%3E >> I copy paste part of the conversation. >> --- >> I am subscribing to the _changes API. My database is quite big, and each >> time I restart my client, I get all old notifications. I only need the new >> notifications, since the moment that I subscribe to the feed. >> I have seen that there is a "since" parameter, but this is not helping me >> further, because I do not know what is the last document sequence number. So >> I would need one of the following: >> - a method to get the last sequence number to use as value for "since" >> - a flag to tell the _changes API to just give me the changed *from now on*. >> This would be the most clean solution, since it saves me a request to get >> the since parameter (which can be outdated anyway very fast). Is there >> something like this? >> --- >> I ended up going the GET /dbname route >> I guess there is no specific flag for the _changes API to request future >> changes... >> --- > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA > administrators: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa > For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira > >
