On 28 July 2010 10:47, Alux <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > today I got a slightly funny problem. Creating a document using an update > handler, I had the hope an _id would be crated if I dont provide one > (similar to POST do the DB). This hope was in vain, so now I have one > document with _id: "". (I did only once, because the second try gave an > update conflict of course :) Futon doesn't give the possibility to open it > (because a link text of length 0 doesnt make a link in the browsers I > tested: Firefox, Opera, Crome), and I just can't imagine to curl it (curl > -X > DELETE http://locahost/sofa/ should rather delete the DB, right??). > > Any ideas? > > I had the same issue a few days ago. I did ask about it in the irc channel, but no one came up with a way to remove it, except for deleting the entire DB (which worked for me). Apparently, an empty string is considered to be a legal value for a doc's '_id', even though you can't really do much with such a document.
I think this edge case is confusing, and maybe should not be exposed to users at all. a. > Thank you a lot & kind regards > > alux >
