No, validation functions cannot modify documents. The usual reason given is that they run during replication as well as during client updates.
Adam On Apr 27, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Andreas Köberle wrote: > Unfortunately _updates doesn't work for me cause YSLOW send with POST > and I get a "Only DELETE,GET,HEAD,PUT allowed" error. Could I use > validate_doc_update instead? > > > On 27 April 2010 14:12, Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> wrote: >> That's correct, Simon, _update handlers don't work with _bulk_docs today. >> Best, >> >> Adam >> >> On Apr 27, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Simon Metson wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> Is it possible to apply an update function to a bulk insert? From >>> reading that page it sounds like not... >>> Cheers >>> Simon >>> >>> On 27 Apr 2010, at 11:05, Sebastian Cohnen wrote: >>> >>>> The answer is yes, to make it short :) >>>> >>>> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Document_Update_Handlers >>>> >>>> >>>> On 27.04.2010, at 11:56, Andreas Köberle wrote: >>>> >>>>> Is there a way to add data to a JSON Object with couchdb, before >>>>> storing it. I've got data direct from YSlow firefox extension but >>>>> unfortunately without a timestamp. >>>> >>> >> >>
