Hello,
I'm trying to write a couchapp with multiple users. Two users can't have the
same name, since I want to access user bob's profile through /user/bob.
Similarly, I store other documents (let's call them stuffs) with unique ids
that I would like to access through /stuff/somestuff.
A user can have the same name as a stuff, and vice versa. That's why I can't
use bob or somestuff as _id (otherwise I couldn't have a stuff named bob or a
user named somestuff).
I see 3 options:
use different databases for users and stuffs, but that means two design
documents and it kind of defeats the purpose of couchapps
use uuids and deal with names in a custom manner. Sounds difficult. I would
really prefer the third option:
use a naming convention for ids, like user:bob and stuff:somestuff.
My favorite choice so far is the third option. The colon can be replaced by any
character, like dash, underscore, comma, @ or even nothing if this can help.
The prefix can also be a postfix.
I initially tried with a forward slash which was perfect until I realized it
was not really supported and it caused problems with update functions (see
COUCHDB-1229).
Is it possible to rewrite /user/bob to, for instance, /_show/profile/user:bob
or /_show/profile/user_bob ?
I tried {"from": "user/*", "to": "_show/profile/user:bob"} and variants with no
success.
If it is not possible, what would be the best alternative?
Thanks a lot for your help,
Simon
PS: For the sake of learning, I'm trying to write a pure couchapp without
client-side javascript…
