I believe that 'badmatch' error is an artifact of Erlang. I can't say for sure but the document may have deserialized fine into Erlang tuples and such, but when they went to pull out "map" the function couldn't match it inside the data structure.
Just a guess, but I agree. A lot of times CouchDB error messages are helpful to the Erlang developer looking at the code and less helpful from the general user writing JavaScript. On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Konstantin Cherkasov <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello! > > > > If the quotes are missing, Futon will detect a syntax error and save the > > field value as a string, and CouchDB will complain that it expected a > > non-string value. > > > Frankly, CouchDB's error messages are in most cases so meaningless that > you have to guess where is the real problem. > > Why "badmatch reason: some crap..." ? > Why not "invalid syntax in design document" or like "can't parse to valid > JSON"? > > > > > . > > On 23 August 2011 10:36, gaoyong pan <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I'm trying my first view with url > >> http://localhost:5984/qq/_design/application/_view/all, the code is, > >> > >> _id : _design/application > >> _rev: 8-70c13aeee55e3ba8400f2068f11d9156 > >> views: { > >> all: { > >> map: "function(doc) { > >> emit(doc._id,doc); > >> }" > >> } > >> } > >> > >> and the error is below, can anyone tell what's the issue here? > >> > >> {"error":"badmatch","reason":"{ \n all: {\n map: \"function(doc) > >> {\n emit(doc._id,doc);\n }\"\n }\n}"} > >> -- > >> Pan > >> > > > > -- > Konstantin > > -- “The limits of language are the limits of one's world. “ - Ludwig von Wittgenstein "Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong." - Lao-Tzu
