James Dingwall wrote:
James Dingwall wrote:
Hi,

I am experiencing some problems with update functions which I use to create documents in CouchDB when they are using require() to load a common library. It seems that after publishing the design document then the first update function to be called works well but any subsequent ones do not call require(). With the log() call in the require I see this appear in the call to the first update but it does not appear with any others, they print a stack trace such as: [Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:20:55 GMT] [error] [<0.6458.0>] httpd 500 error response: {"error":"render_error","reason":"function raised error: (new ReferenceError(\"docUtil is not defined\", \"updates.template\", 54))
stacktrace: (null,[object Object])@updates.template:54
runUpdate(<<<body of update function>>>),[object Object],[object Array])@/usr/local/share/couchdb/server/main.js:1033 (\"_design/provision\",[object Array],[object Array])@/usr/local/share/couchdb/server/main.js:1517
()@/usr/local/share/couchdb/server/main.js:1562
@/usr/local/share/couchdb/server/main.js:1573
"}

As far as I can tell by require()d code is ok since the same structure is working for other things. What it seems to me is that it is loaded by CouchDB for the first update function and is then recorded as loaded but a second update function needing the same code has its require ignored but cannot reference the in memory copy produce by the require from the first update.

I have tested versions CouchDB 1.3.1, 1.4.0 and 1.5.0 all with the same behaviour. I am running on Ubuntu precise with esl-erlang 1:16.b.3-1.

Any suggestions on where to look next?

Thanks,
James


As an example:

The updates are all of the form:
function(doc, req) {
  require('views/lib/docUtil');

  if(!doc) {
     doc = {some: defaults}
  }

  // some other code

  doc.meta = docUtil.metaCreate(req);

  return([doc, JSON.stringify(doc, undefined, 2)]);
}

views/lin/docUtil is similar too:
(function(global) {

var _metaCreate = function(req) {
...
};

var _metaModify = function(req) {
...
};

log('docUtil loaded')
global.docUtil = {
  metaCreate = _metaCreate,
  metaModify = metaModify
};

})(exports.docUtil = this)


Here is a complete test case design document which demonstrates the problem.

{
   "_id": "_design/ptest",
   "updates": {
"two": "function(doc, req) {\n\trequire('views/lib/docUtil');\n\n\tif(!doc) {\n\t\tdoc = {};\n\t}\n\n\tdoc._id = 'two';\n\n\tdoc.meta = docUtil.metaCreate();\n\n\treturn([doc, JSON.stringify(doc, undefined, 2)]);\n}", "one": "function(doc, req) {\n\trequire('views/lib/docUtil');\n\n\tif(!doc) {\n\t\tdoc = {};\n\t}\n\n\tdoc._id = 'one';\n\n\tdoc.meta = docUtil.metaCreate();\n\n\treturn([doc, JSON.stringify(doc, undefined, 2)]);\n}"
   },
   "language": "javascript",
   "views": {
       "lib": {
"docUtil": "(function(global) {\n\nvar _metaCreate = function() {\n\treturn({\n\t\ta: 'create',\n\t\tb: 'bbbb'\n\t});\n};\n\nvar _metaModify = function() {\n\treturn({\n\t\ta: 'modify',\n\t\tb: 'bbbb'\n\t});\n};\n\nglobal.docUtil = {\n\tmetaCreate: _metaCreate,\n\tmetaModify: _metaModify\n};\n\nlog('require docUtil');\n\n})(exports.docUtil = this)"
       }
   },
   "type": "design/ptest"
}

Call the update functions like:
curl -X POST http://couchdb:5984/zydev/_design/ptest/_update/one - creates a document
curl -X POST http://couchdb:5984/zydev/_design/ptest/_update/two - fails
I have opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1961 for this issue as it appears to be a bug in the couchdb query server module cache.

James

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