Then copy your doc to the new id and delete the old one.
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Fabio Batalha Cunha dos Santos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Yes This issue I now. > > I want to redefine an id that was already defined automatically by the > couchDB. > I already have a lot of register with _id as UUID, I want to change it to > another value. > > > Thanks, > *Fabio Batalha C. Santos* > Colegiado SciELO > www.scielo.org > FAPESP - CNPq - BIREME - FapUNIFESP > > > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Paul Davis > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Fabio Batalha Cunha dos Santos >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello all, >> > >> > I'd like to know if is it possible to redefine the _id value. I intend to >> > user a different id from the automatic UUID generated by the couchdb. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > *Fabio Batalha C. Santos* >> > Colegiado SciELO >> > www.scielo.org >> > FAPESP - CNPq - BIREME - FapUNIFESP >> > >> >> Just put to /db_name/docid or POST with an {"_id": "my_id", ...} >> >> Couch only generates an id when you haven't provided one. >> >
