you can do ?keys=["foo","bar"] in newer couchdb version, obviously up the practical url limit of around 2k (or 4k now?).
B. On 28 February 2013 16:38, Tim Tisdall <[email protected]> wrote: > In that example the variables are being passed in as POST values. You're > adding them to the URL which is making them GET variables. Do you have > code examples that you're trying to use in Javascript? Are you using > jQuery? > > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Alexander Gabriel <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi >> >> The couchdb docs are full of examples using curl. >> >> My problem is, I'm a noob and a windows user. And I am programming using >> Javascript, not Curl (I suspect most of you are?). >> Well, I have spent quite a while sitting in front of all these examples >> scratching my head and wondering how to write them in http. I'd better just >> ask an example: >> >> What would this here: curl -d '{"keys":["bar","baz"]}' -X POST >> http://127.0.0.1:5984/foo/_all_docs?include_docs=true >> >> be in http? >> >> I have tried this: >> http://127.0.0.1:5984/foo/_all_docs?include_docs=true&id=["bar","baz";] >> >> In case this is correct then maybe it did not work for me because my array >> contains hundreds, sometimes thousands of id's which is why I am looking >> for a way to fetch them all in one request. >> >> What would the best way be to fetch hundreds of docs of which you know the >> id and can't use a view? (other than opening every on single) >> >> My use-case: Importing big lists into a couch. The data in the uploaded >> .csv-files comes with id's and has to be inserted into the corresponding >> docs. >> >> Cheers >> Alex >>
