On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Cory Zue <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am prototyping an app to receive an XML POST and convert the data to > a couch object. Based on what I've read so far it seems like the > _update method is designed to let you do exactly this. However, I > have some questions (note that I haven't tried any of this yet, am > just basing my information off documentation on-line. > > From here: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Document_Update_Handlers I > understand that "To invoke a handler, one must "PUT" the document > against the handler function itself (POST does not seem to be > supported)." Was there any reasoning behind this decision or was it > just a feature that never made it? Not allowing these things to run > on POSTs seems to drastically reduce their utility for no reason > that's obvious to me.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that statement is no longer true. I was testing update handlers recently and it accepted POSTs just fine. > > Second, is there a community recommended XML to JSON library to > perform the data transfer? I've been evaluating several (listed > below), none of which seem to be highly active, recent, or well > established. Anyone done this before and want to make a > recommendation? I'm surprised that there's not a de-facto choice for > this. > > http://www.thomasfrank.se/xml_to_json.html > http://goessner.net/download/prj/jsonxml/ > http://www.codeproject.com/KB/scripting/XmlToJson.aspx > http://michael.hinnerup.net/blog/2008/01/26/converting-json-to-xml-and-xml-to-json/ > > thanks, > Cory > -- Paul Bonser http://probablyprogramming.com
