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Benjamin Young commented on COUCHDB-1303:
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Yeah, that needs exploration, discussion, etc. There'd certainly be value in
{{_update}} (or similar) handling multiple document saving. Likely, there'd
need to be ways to do some or all of the following:
a. report per-doc failure info
b. handle document-saving in the function (this seems like a Bad Thing due to
blocking the engine)
c. provide an "all or nothing" style feature (or make it mandatory, maybe)
where nothing gets stored if they all can't be stored.
Does {{validate_doc_update}} run on {{_update}}?
Are conflicts the key issue (as we'd not have read any previous docs prior to
write-attempts in the mentioned setup at least)?
The error condition handling is where the complexity/bloat/etc will happen...as
ever...
> Add a _bulk_update handler similar to _update but for bulk document changes
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> Key: COUCHDB-1303
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1303
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Benjamin Young
> Labels: api, update_request_handler
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> _update handlers are great (and getting better!) for building RESTful API's
> inside CouchDB. One limitation I found tonight is that _update can only do a
> single document at a time. If the API I'm building needs to update multiple
> docs (in a similar fashion to _bulk_docs), then an outside "proxy" script is
> required. It would be ideal to have a _bulk_update handler to allow for the
> same functionality as _update, but with the ability to insert multiple
> documents at once.
> Perhaps the current _update handler API could be extended to support multiple
> IDs/documents, but a separate API endpoint would be seem reasonable if needed.
> Thanks for considering this idea.
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