Re: Bulk CSV import?

2010-01-15 Thread Brian Candler
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 02:15:54PM -0800, Chris Anderson wrote: More difficult would be to allow bulk *updates* via this mechanism, because having parsed out the IDs you'd need to be able to fetch existing docs, modify and write back. If the CSV source was responsible for tracking _revs

Re: Lounge is trouble

2010-01-15 Thread Markus Jelsma
Hello Kevin, Not as i know of, i'm practicing the setup and had no databases on the system (i have two independant couch-N nodes). I installed and configured as well as i could using the wiki and common sense and some luck. Then i simply created a new database (using the old google wiki as a

Re: Changing the default _auth validation function

2010-01-15 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 03:18:52PM -0800, Chris Anderson wrote: I'd think that the document could be 'any old document', with the only requirement being that it have a specific id (_auth? _security?). There could be some conventions, but I don't really see why couch should enforce any

Mini CouchDB Meetup in Munich Tonight

2010-01-15 Thread Jan Lehnardt
Hey there, I'm visiting Munich and I thought we could do a small, spontaneous CouchDB meetup tonight. We're meeting at http://niederlassung.org/ at 19:00. If you are in town, come by and say hi :) Cheers Jan --

Re: Mini CouchDB Meetup in Munich Tonight

2010-01-15 Thread Volker Mische
I'll be there as well. Cheers, Volker On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote: Hey there, I'm visiting Munich and I thought we could do a small, spontaneous CouchDB meetup tonight. We're meeting at http://niederlassung.org/ at 19:00. If you are in town, come

Re: Mini CouchDB Meetup in Munich Tonight

2010-01-15 Thread Bernd Lutz
Sounds great. I hope there is time come around. Regards, Bernd Am 15.01.2010 um 12:39 schrieb Volker Mische: I'll be there as well. Cheers, Volker On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote: Hey there, I'm visiting Munich and I thought we could do a small,

Re: Changing the default _auth validation function

2010-01-15 Thread eric casteleijn
This sounds reasonable, but maybe we can make it easier. You could almost model the manager as a db_admin, but you probably don't want them editing design documents. So what you need is a set of roles that apply to particular users, in the context of a particular database. Maybe it makes more

Re: Changing the default _auth validation function

2010-01-15 Thread Chris Anderson
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:52 AM, eric casteleijn eric.castele...@canonical.com wrote: This sounds reasonable, but maybe we can make it easier. You could almost model the manager as a db_admin, but you probably don't want them editing design documents. So what you need is a set of roles that

Re: Binary data [was Bulk CSV import?]

2010-01-15 Thread Chris Anderson
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Brian Candler b.cand...@pobox.com wrote: A couple more thoughts about importing and exporting aggregate batches of document-oriented data. * A desktop-friendly way to bundle documents is in a ZIP file. Unfortunately that's a binary format, and _list/_external

Re: Bulk CSV import?

2010-01-15 Thread Chris Anderson
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Brian Candler b.cand...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 02:15:54PM -0800, Chris Anderson wrote: More difficult would be to allow bulk *updates* via this mechanism, because having parsed out the IDs you'd need to be able to fetch existing docs,

Re: GWT app stored and served from CouchDB?

2010-01-15 Thread David Carns
GWT does not need a servlet container for talking to json, does it? This article seems to hold out some hope: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/articles/using_gwt_for_json_mashups.html On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:04 AM, naren naren.sa...@gmail.com wrote: I have used GWT in the past and I would

Re: CouchDB speakers

2010-01-15 Thread Chris Anderson
Another one: It'd be great to have a flood of talk proposals and case studies at OSCON: Call for participation is open for another week or so. http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2010 The conference is July 19-23rd in Portland Oregon. Especially stories of personal experience with CouchDB would be

Re: Binary data [was Bulk CSV import?]

2010-01-15 Thread Brian Candler
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:32:34AM -0800, Chris Anderson wrote: list and show should be able to return base64 data, to be decoded to binary before sending to the client. I know there is a test that _show can serve a favicon.ico file. Thank you for pointing that out, I found the _show test. I

Re: Binary data [was Bulk CSV import?]

2010-01-15 Thread Chris Anderson
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Brian Candler b.cand...@pobox.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:32:34AM -0800, Chris Anderson wrote: list and show should be able to return base64 data, to be decoded to binary before sending to the client. I know there is a test that _show can serve a