2009/6/30 Nicolas Steinmetz <nsteinmetz@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> First to introduce myself : New to CouchDB universe, I read the WIP CouchDB
> Book, some official documentation and some writings from "benoitc". So now I
> try to build my first couchdb app with a simple clone of delicious.

couchapp mailing list could be better for that :
couchapp@googlegroups.com but I will answer here.

>
> So in a first part, I installed couchapp 0.3.2 and generate a first project
> (called "mycouchapp") and then pushed it on my local couchdb server (using
> CouchDBX) in a db called "monapp".
>
> At this stage, I got the default placeholder from Couchapp.
>
> Then from Futon, I added 3 documents like this one :
>
> {
>   "_id": "3b0ce9b06a0f7a110dbd8a72b32f2072",
>   "_rev": "3-1834349775",
>   "title": "CouchDB Official site",
>   "url": "http://couchdb.apache.org/",
>   "description": "Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and
> schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful
> HTTP/JSON API",
>   "tag": [
>       "couchdb",
>       "database",
>       "document"
>   ]
> }
>
>
> {
>   "_id": "63f417d3d2217e4be4d284a30056c84d",
>   "_rev": "2-1087649587",
>   "title": "Couchdbkit",
>   "description": "Couchdbkit goal is to provide a framework for your
> Python application to access and manage Couchdb.",
>   "url": "http://www.couchdbkit.org/",
>   "tag": [
>       "couchdb",
>       "python",
>       "framework"
>   ]
> }
>
>
> {
>   "_id": "8fa1e44814d3d1800069127da12e72f9",
>   "_rev": "2-3730993466",
>   "title": "couchapp",
>   "description": "Utilities to make standalone CouchDB application
> development simple",
>   "url": "http://github.com/couchapp/couchapp/tree/master",
>   "tag": [
>       "couchdb",
>       "python",
>       "ruby"
>   ]
> }
>
>
> I know I should have used better _id but it's my first try and realised it
> too late ;-)
>
> I played a little bit with Futon to design some temporary view to try
> requests against my documents. All went well.
>
> This done, I would like to create my first lists / shows / views but failed
> so far :-(
>
> I tried to build them by looking mainly at sofa code but I always have 404
> page with not a lot of info for going further.
>
> I did not forget to push code with couchapp to update my couchdb instance.
>
> My aim was to create two "pages" :
> * One list to display all documents
> * One show to display a given document
>
> For the list :
> * I should have a index.js file in lists directory for the list with a
> function like :
>
> function(head, row, req, info) {
>  // !json templates.index
>  // !code vendor/couchapp/path.js
>  // !code vendor/couchapp/date.js
>  // !code vendor/couchapp/template.js
>
>  return respondWith(req, {
>    html : function() {
>      if (head) {
>        return template(templates.index.head, {
>          assets : assetPath(),
>        });
>      } else if (row) {
>        var fav = row.value;
>        return template(templates.index.row, {
>          title : fav.title,
>          description : fav.description,
>          url : fav.url
>        });
>      } else {
>        return template(templates.index.tail, {
>            assets : assetPath(),
>        });
>      }
>    },
>  })
> };
>
> This mean that I have a templates/index/{head|row|tail}.html files. I just
> adapted the one of sofa with removing "useless" code in my case
>
> If I understand well, that's all I need with an url like :
> http://localhost:5984/monapp/_list/mycouchapp/index/

url is wrong it is on the format :

/yourdb/_design/somedesigndoc/_list/nameoflist/nameofview


> Url is something like : http://localhost:5984/monapp/_show/mycouchapp/fav/
> <_id>
>

again it should be

/yourdb/_design/somedesigndoc/_show/nameofshow/id


> What annoys me is the 404 status for all pages and that from the html
> template point of views, I do not see JS that will "talk" to CouchDB
> server/instance. There is something "magical" I can't get so far.
>
> As I did not find so far examples from ground/scratch for building lists /
> shows, I ask for some help.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Nicolas
>
> PS : On #couchdb, #couchapp, you can find me with the login NiCoS`
> PS2 : do not know it it's more a couchapp or couchdb issue - think
> it's more couchdb one...
> --

This just the urls you user that are wrong. Since I wrote my posts uri
layhout have changed. I will post something about it tomorrow on my
web.

- benoît