Hi Mike,
This is not completely watertight, especially considering replicating over documents. In general, all new documents are prefixed with 1- but you can just as easily add a document and set the _rev manually to a number higher than 1. Setting _rev to 0 won't do the trick though. If your scenario doesn't allow for these kind of `features`, you could use it i guess. Cheers, Michael Beam said: > Hi There, > > My application is monitoring the _changes API to update its UI for > updated documents. I would also like to take actions in my app for new > documents, so I wanted to get the list's opinion on detecting created > documents. > > Is checking the revision string for the prefix "1-" is a reliable and > robust method of recognizing a change as a new document? Everything in > my experience points to yes, but I may be overlooking some subtleties > about how that all works. > > Thanks! > > Mike Beam
