I have switched to (Ruby)ppjson. Sorry about that. (of course Couch would not sort the doc contents!!!)
Thanks again Joan. On 13 February 2017 at 15:55, John Le Brasseur <[email protected]> wrote: > Mmmm! > I think (python)json.tool in Vim put each doc's contents in alphabetical > order, not CouchDB. Is there a way of forcing json.tool NOT to sort?? > Can't find it so far. > > On 13 February 2017 at 14:39, John Le Brasseur <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thanks Joan. >> Thanks especially for the tip that _all_docs is a view!! >> I am working on this matter, but find the GET docs are also sorted >> alphabetically which is irritating as the original docs had a sequence for >> a reason. Is there a way to avoid the sorting of the output. >> I presume once updated the order is permanent. >> >> >> On 12 February 2017 at 22:42, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi John, >>> >>> The standard procedure generally is a GET-modify-PUT cycle, one document >>> at a time. >>> >>> Remember that _all_docs is basically a built in view. You're presumably >>> adding include_docs=true to that view request to get the format you're >>> seeing (or your client is doing this for you). >>> >>> A simple: >>> >>> doc = doc.doc >>> >>> or equivalent in your language should limit scope to just the document >>> itself. >>> >>> Good luck, >>> Joan >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> > From: "John Le Brasseur" <[email protected]> >>> > To: [email protected] >>> > Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2017 10:19:42 AM >>> > Subject: Getting, editing and (re-)Posting docs to update them: >>> > >>> > Hi. >>> > I am getting(GET) all the docs from my database in order to try and >>> > update >>> > certain data in all of them and then POST the edited docs to update >>> > the >>> > database. >>> > >>> > >>> > However, the documents contain extra data which looks like this: >>> > >>> > "id": "d8d006c66c0e4555bf12e5d086003010", >>> > "key": "d8d006c66c0e4555bf12e5d086003010", >>> > "value": { >>> > "rev": "28-38526f3787b1fcedc82624419709c347" >>> > }, >>> > "doc": { .... >>> > >>> > >>> > This is followed by the actual document: >>> > >>> > "_id": "d8d006c66c0e4555bf12e5d086003010", >>> > "_rev": "28-38526f3787b1fcedc82624419709c347", >>> > ...........etc. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > Is there a way to get output without this data added? >>> > >>> > If not I presume one must remove this manually every time one wishes >>> > to >>> > edit documents. >>> > >>> > Many thanks. >>> > >>> > John >>> > >>> >> >> John >> >> >> > > John > John
