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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:23:29 -0600
Message-ID: <5aaed53f0902221823r4bec8859xbca3569ade9fa839@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with python view server
From: "Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T" <dundeemt@gmail.com>
To: user@couchdb.apache.org
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On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Simon Metson
<simonmetson@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>        Using CouchDB 0.9.0a722639-incubating I get the following error wh=
en trying to access a python view server:
>
> {"error":"{badmatch,{start_array,{decoder,null,37,1,38,trim}}}","reason":=
"[{mochijson2,json_decode,2},\n {couch_query_servers,read_json,1},\n {couch=
_query_servers,prompt,2},\n {couch_query_servers,'-map_docs/2-fun-1-',2},\n=
 {lists,map,2},\n {couch_query_servers,map_docs,2},\n {couch_view,view_comp=
ute,2},\n {couch_view,update_group,1}]"}
>
> http://localhost:5984/_config/query_servers/ has:
> {"python":"/Users/metson/Documents/Workspace/PlayGround/couchdb-python/bu=
ild/lib/couchdb/view.py","javascript":"/Users/metson/Documents/Workspace/Pl=
ayGround/couchdb/install/bin/couchjs /Users/metson/Documents/Workspace/Play=
Ground/couchdb/install/share/couchdb/server/main.js"}

You want to use couchpy as your view server.
 Assuming python-couchdb 0.5
>
> which is from the latest trunk of couchdb-python, and the view is:
> def mapfun(doc): yield doc

You will want to yield  key,values -- you would actually want something lik=
e:
  yield None, doc

>
> The script is executable, and, as far as I can tell the python path is co=
rrect (I can import all the libs).
> Am I doing something obviously wrong? Should I update to a more recent co=
uch build?
> Cheers
> Simon

Regards,

Jeff