Thanks, That is interesting, but it will not allow me to copy to another server/database.
I have remembered that I can get all attachments (no stubs) at once with attachments=true, and that is exactly what I need. BR, Daniel On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Garren Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > You can use the copy API, that should duplicate the document for you. See > the docs for more > http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/api/document/common.html#copy--db-docid > > Cheers > Garren > > On 05 December 2013 at 8:07:04 AM, Daniel Gonzalez > ([email protected]<//[email protected]>) > wrote: > > Hi all, > > Let's say I have host1/db1/doc_id1 which I want to duplicate to > host2/db2/doc_id2. > > The original document has (maybe) attachments. Currently what I am doing > is: > > 1. > Get doc1. I get an attachment stub. > 2. > Put this document to host2/db2/doc_id2 > 3. > Now I should loop through all attachments, get them, and put them to the > new document. Probably something will not be guesses right (content_type, > ...). > > Instead, I would like to use a method which: > > 1. > Duplicates the document by using a single GET to obtain the original > documents + attachments, and creates the new document with a single > PUT/POST (is this possible, no matter the amount of attachments?) > 2. > Does not use the filesystem to save the attachments > 3. > Does not use replication > 4. > Does not recreate the attachments: specifically, no re-guessing of the > content type and other attachment properties. > To make it clear: I want an exact copy of the original document, except > that: > > 1. > The doc_id is different > 2. > It is in a different host/database than the original document > 3. > There is no revision > > Is there any built-in couchdb support for this? > > Thanks, > Daniel > > > Link to original SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/q/20386913/647991 > >
