On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Simon Leblanc <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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…
Actually the best way to do it would be eventually passing the user as
a query parameter. /profile?user=bob
then :
{"from": "/profile", "to": "/_show/profile/:user" } where id is bob.
Easier way is coming, but not sure it will be in 1.2 .
- benoit
