On 10/15/2012 02:10 AM, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
On 15 October 2012 05:02, A. Lotfi <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I am new to couchDB, just started to read tutorials about it, I found this one :
http://blog.edparcell.com/using-jquery-and-couchdb-to-build-a-simple-we
Welcome!
In the first page it says :
The initial version of our webapp will let us store a mobile number for each
person, so add the following 2 documents:
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1. {"type": "address", "name": "Fred", "mobile": "555-0001"}
2. {"type": "address", "name": "Barney", "mobile": "555-0002"}
Is there any way to add ducument as the above jsons, or just add one by one
from :
http://127.0.0.1:5984/_utils/database.html?addressbook
by clicking New Document. ?
thanks
You can use any http library to add documents, but command line cURL
is a very good place to start off from with CouchDB.
You can do this to upload a single JSON doc inline, note that CouchDB
will assign a UUID for you in this case:
curl -Hcontent-type:application/json -XPOST
http://localhost:5984/test1/ --data-binary '<document>'
or include the UUID yourself:
curl -Hcontent-type:application/json -XPUT
http://localhost:5984/test1/newdoc --data-binary '<document>'
Where document is the JSON body you have above.
You can also use the bulk_docs interface to upload multiple JSON docs,
when they're in a single file:
http://www.muse.net.nz/blog/2011/12/16/munging-posterous-with-couchdb/
Futon is a simple interface to do some admin on your db or do a simple
insert or query. from your example it does sound like you want to use
the easiest way to get some initial or test data into your db - in that
case curl and the command bulk_docs is an easy way to load a set of data
- just note: with bulk_docs you need to structure your json to look like
this {"docs": [{json1},{json2}]} - look up the wiki page on this.
after you understand using couch commands from the command line using
curl - then you could move to calling couchdb REST commands from a
program using jquery, etc but this is a bit trickier with same origin
policies, etc.
I suggest you use yajl or some other JSON linter to confirm your JSON
is valid before uploading it. A really common issue is that your text
is not UTF8, even though the characters are valid.
A+
Dave
