Hey all,
at long last, a new release of CouchDB-Python has become available
today: 0.6
This is the release that was *supposed* to be released around the time
CouchDB 0.9 got released, but alas, other things got in the way.
Anyway, this release comes with a number of fixes and improvements
that should hopefully benefit anyone using this library, including:
* `schema.DictField` instances no longer need to be bound to a
`Schema` (issue 51).
* Added a `config` property to the `client.Server` class (issue 67).
* Added a `compact()` method to the `client.Database` class (issue 37).
* Changed the `update()` method of the `client.Database` class to
simplify the handling of errors. The method now returns a list of
`(success, docid, rev_or_exc)` tuples. See the docstring of that
method for the details.
* `schema.ListField` proxy objects now support the `__contains__()`
and `index()` methods (issue 77).
* The results of the `query()` and `view()` methods in the
`schema.Document` class are now properly wrapped in objects of the
class if the `include_docs` option is set (issue 76).
* Removed the `eager` option on the `query()` and `view()` methods of
`schema.Document`. Use the `include_docs` option instead, which
doesn't require an additional request per document.
* Added a `copy()` method to the `client.Database` class, which
translates to a HTTP COPY request (issue 74).
* Accessing a non-existing database through `Server.__getitem__` now
throws a `ResourceNotFound` exception as advertised (issue 41).
* Added a `delete()` method to the `client.Server` class for
consistency (issue 64).
* The `couchdb-dump` tool now operates in a streaming fashion, writing
one document at a time to the resulting MIME multipart file (issue 58).
* It is now possible to explicitly set the JSON module that should be
used for decoding/encoding JSON data. The currently available choices
are `simplejson`, `cjson`, and `json` (the standard library module).
It is also possible to use custom decoding/encoding functions.
* Add logging to the Python view server. It can now be configured to
log to a given file or the standard error stream, and the log level
can be set debug to see all communication between CouchDB and the view
server (issue 55).
* The replication_helper script now uses pull instead of push
replication (issue 46).
* The replication_helper script allows providing authentication
credentials using the http://username:passw...@server format (issue 47).
* The replication_helper wait threshold no longer defaults to 0
seconds thus pegging the CPU (issue 48)
* Also, replication_helper can now optionally log to a file, and the
command-line syntax has been cleaned up.
It can be downloaded from PyPI here:
<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/CouchDB>
To report bugs, join the mailing list, etc, start with the project
homepage:
<http://code.google.com/p/couchdb-python/>
Many thanks to everyone who contributed patches and bug reports!
Cheers,
--
Christopher Lenz
cmlenz at gmx.de
http://www.cmlenz.net/
