Hi Darrell,
sure, you can do the socket & HTTP all on your own, but
the idea of cURL is to take that ground work off your back,
so you can focus on your application.
Cheers
Jan
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On 7 May 2009, at 03:37, Darrell Huang wrote:
Do I have to use some libraries like curl to access CouchDB? Can I
directly use socket to send the HTTP commands in the form of C
strings? Thanks!
Yours,
Darrell.
CouchDB ships only with JavaScript access libraries. There are
libraries in many languages, all of them are available through
independent distribution channels.
I'm not sure if there's a C library, but all access to CouchDB is via
HTTP, so however you like to access HTTP from C will work. (The
suggestion to use Curl is a good one). The only other part of the
story is JSON parsing. In my limited research, yajl looked like a good
library for that.
I do think you'll end up needing to write most of the library
yourself. Luckily, once you have the HTTP and JSON libraries linked
in, the rest is just a matter of giving names to the various URL
endpoints of the CouchDB API.
Good luck and keep us posted!
What are you talking about? Of course, there's a C API! :-)
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/
cheers,
hugs
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Chris Anderson
http://jchrisa.net
http://couch.io
