I do not think Damien's suggestion works. During bulk updates, CouchDB will replace both a missing ID and also an empty string ID with a UUID.
https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/trunk/src/couchdb/couch_httpd_db.erl#L296-299 and https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/trunk/src/couchdb/couch_db.hrl#L99-101 On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Zachary Zolton <[email protected]> wrote: > Does the _update function do the same thing as Damien's suggestion to > POST to _bulk_docs? (Just curious) > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> You can delete the problematic document with an empty ID using a >> Javascript _update function. >> >> I wrote about it at >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7604557/how-do-you-delete-a-couchdb-document-with-an-empty-document-id/7605456#7605456 >> >> Basically just make an _update function which returns [{_id:"", >> _rev:$your_rev, _deleted:true}, "Hasta lasagna, baby"]; >> >> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:50 AM, bsquared <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Christopher Bonhage <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>> couchdb -i >>>> >>>> DbName = <<"database_name_here">>, >>>> DocId = <<>>, >>>> rr(couchdb), >>>> {ok, Db} = couch_db:open(DbName, [{user_ctx, >>>> #user_ctx{roles=[<<"_admin">>]}}]), >>>> case couch_db:open_doc(Db, DocId) of >>>> {ok, Doc} -> >>>> couch_db:update_doc(Db, Doc#doc{deleted=true}, []); >>>> Error -> >>>> Error >>>> end. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> It appears that I need to include a user_ctx record the response from >>> this code was: >>> * 5: record user_ctx undefined >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Brian Winfrey >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Iris Couch >> > -- Iris Couch
