On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Jonathan Geddes <[email protected]> wrote: > These all sound like good ideas that will work, but they seem like a > lot of work for a fairly simple task. > > Anyone know the rational behind couch not supporting write-only for > users? Open databases are cool, but sometimes you need closed ones to > protect privacy.
I would like a write-only "dropbox" style database. I've wanted this for a while, but sadly sits at the bottom of my todo list. Chris > > Thanks all for the responses. > > --Jonathan > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Aravinda VK > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sorry I missed a note, the example blog(http://hosabelaku.aravindavk.in) has >> some issue with Internet explorer. (Didn't get the Windows machine to test >> it and fix :) ) >> >> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Aravinda VK >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I had the similar situation while creating my photoblog. When user add >>> comments to a blog then other users can see the sensitive informations like >>> email. >>> >>> So my approach, >>> Created the comments app as an independent system(Like Disqus) >>> Added PHP layer to it and given read and write permission to Admin for >>> comments database. >>> The PHP layer acts as API server. >>> >>> When user adds comment, It will be submitted to PHP layer using JSONP(since >>> cross domain). >>> To load the comments, I just pass URL of blog/page to get comments related >>> to that URL. (Email will be excluded by PHP layer while serving) >>> >>> My photoblog is created as couchapp, and gets comments from PHP layer using >>> JSONP. >>> >>> Except for comment system, everything else is complete couchapp. >>> >>> Advantage here is, We can use the same comments system for multiple >>> websites. >>> >>> You can visit the blog which I am talking about >>> http://hosabelaku.aravindavk.in (This photoblog is in Kannada, Language of >>> Karnataka, India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada) >>> >>> Source code is not shared yet. Need to cleanup the code bit. Will share >>> once it is ready :) >>> >>> -- >>> Regards >>> Aravinda | ಅರವಿಂದ >>> http://aravindavk.in >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Jonathan Geddes < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> couchdb users, >>>> >>>> I'm thinking of using a couchapp for an upcoming project, but there is >>>> one capability that I'm unsure of. >>>> >>>> I need a database that anyone can post to, but only admin can read >>>> from. The requirement is to allow users to post personal information >>>> that other users cannot see. If I understand the couchdb permissions >>>> model correctly, for a given db, anyone who can create documents can >>>> also read documents. >>>> >>>> Is there a way to do this with a couchapp? It seems a shame to have to >>>> add "middleware" just to get this one capability. >>>> >>>> thanks, >>>> >>>> --Jonathan >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> Aravinda | ಅರವಿಂದ >> http://aravindavk.in >> > -- Chris Anderson http://jchrisa.net http://couch.io
