Nitin Borwankar wrote:
Paul Davis wrote:
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Nitin Borwankar<[email protected]>
wrote:
Starting a separate thread as this was discovered at the end of a long
thread about jQuery/callback=? etc.
Here's what I am seeing. Wondering if this is supposed to be this
way and
why that might be ?
curl -v http://localhost:5984/
* About to connect() to localhost port 5984 (#0)
* Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 5984 (#0)
GET / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.19.3 (i386-apple-darwin9.6.0) libcurl/7.19.3
zlib/1.2.3
Host: localhost:5984
Accept: */*
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: CouchDB/0.9.0 (Erlang OTP/R12B)
< Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:42:07 GMT
< Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8
<-------===============---------
note text/plain
< Content-Length: 40
< Cache-Control: must-revalidate
<
{"couchdb":"Welcome","version":"0.9.0"}
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
* Closing connection #0
This appears to be the same for results of views etc as well.
I am on CouchDBX 0.9.0 on Intel Leopard 10.5.7
Thanks,
Nitin
Yep this is expected because if we return application/json by default
then browsers will prompt users to download instead of displaying the
output. There were a couple awesome bike shed discussions on it. See
also the end responses with a newline threads if you're feeling
masochistic.
For reference the end result was return text/plain unless the client
asks for application/json.
Paul
OK, so curl -v -H gives me the right response - but setting teh
contentType in $.ajax() still gives a text/plain back which I have to
JSON.parse().
This may be a jQuery issue - in any case
a) I know how to get it to work
b) I know now why it has to be that way - I figured it was related to
making it easire to debug and just to see what was happening.
Right decision I think but it might help to document prominently in
the wiki. Happy to write something up if you tell me the right place
to put it.
Nitin
OK, so here's the problem - $.ajax wants a dataType param not a contentType.
The following works
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "http://localhost:5984/,
dataType: "json",
success: function(data){
alert(data.version); },
error: function(data){
alert('try harder'); }
});
This is a good test piece of code and should return the version number
of your couch instance assuming a default location and port.
Again happy to document on wiki given some direction as to the right place.
Nitin
