I doubt CouchDB will be able to do this without you coding anything to sync on the server side. And it sounds like you want to use CouchDB on the local devices and not have a central server. Have you considered using Lawnchair and just replicating the client's JSON to Dropbox?
--- Keith Gable A+ Certified Professional Network+ Certified Professional Web Developer On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Holger Protzek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to use couchdb on a android and a ios application, to store alle > data locally in the database. So long no problem, but I would also like to > sync these couchdb databases. > > As far as I know, this can be acomplished with a central couchdb server > instance, but I would like to use for the syncronisation/replication a > dropbox account. > > Is this possible? or only a bad idea :-) > > One solution in my mind, is to create for every document in the couchdb, a > json file in the dropbox, with uuid as filename. On programm start I check > for new files in the dropbox. So new or updated documents will be merged in > the local database. > > For example the password manager 1password can use dropbox as a backend, for > every entry it creates a file in the dropbox and on startup it checks for new > and updated entries in the dropbox. > > Any ideas or sugesstions? > Thanks, > Holger >
