Could you change your filter to something like this?
function(doc) {
return doc._deleted || doc.type == 'foo';
}
That way you replicate all deleted docs.
-Zach
On Saturday, July 9, 2011, Mitja Kleider <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as an example I chose the replication filter function from
> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Replication#Filtered_Replication
>> function(doc, req) {
>> if (doc.type && doc.type == "foo") {
>> return true;
>> } else {
>> return false;
>> }
>> }
>
> After replicating to another db, change a document containing type="foo" to
> type="bar" and replicate again.
> Because the filter function returns false, the document remains unchanged in
> the replicated db.
> The same happens when deleting the document containing type="foo". The filter
> function returns false on the deleted document, the deletion is not
> replicated.
>
> I would like to achieve a different behavior:
> If the filter function returns false, but the document was replicated
> previously, it should be deleted.
>
> Any ideas how to solve this?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mitja
>
>
