Hi Mike, I am using that plan for user uploaded docs also. Best regards,
Dan Sent from mobile On Aug 22, 2011, at 5:26, Martin Matusiak <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings couchers, > > I have thus far only used couch for storing documents. But I now have > two cases where attachments seem to be the thing to use and I'd like > to ask what you think of it. > > The first is translations of user generated content. On a multilingual > site it occurs to me that one way to handle translations is just to > have the original document in English and then store clones of it as > attachments, where all the strings are translated. Does this strike > you as a good idea? The alternative would be to store them as separate > documents with a reference to the master document. > > The other case is user uploaded files, which are not for public > viewing. It would be easier to serve them as plain static files with > nginx, but since I need an access control it has to go through the web > app layer somehow, and thus it might as well be stored in the database > alongside the document to which it logically belongs. Then when a > request comes in, I do an authorization check, then fetch the file > from couch and write it into the response, a dynamic sort of download. > > What do you think? > > > Thanks, > > Martin
