Also note that doing a request from the url makes it a get not a post. Try using jquery or you can use http://daleharvey.github.com/jquery.couch.js-docs/symbols/index.html
located at http://localhost:5984/_utils/script/jquery.couch.js Jeff Charette | Principal We Are Charette web / identity / packaging m 415.298.2707 w wearecharette.com e [email protected] On Feb 28, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>
