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From: Zachary Zolton <zachary.zolton@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:38:11 -0500
Message-ID: <f728979f0909241538s3f6db4e2j7a04dc3003d8b52e@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: CouchDB _show and 404?
To: user@couchdb.apache.org
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My apologies! I just re-read the wiki and saw my answer:

function(doc, req) {
  if(doc) {
    // regular doc display logic
  } else { // document not found
    if(req.docId) {
      // HANDLE MISSING DOC HERE!!
    } else {
      // handle unspecified doc id
    }
  }
}

RTFM-FTW!  :^P

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Chris Anderson <jchris@apache.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Zachary Zolton
> <zachary.zolton@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> Does CouchDB provide any hooks for me to execute some custom logic
>> when a _show request points to non-existent docid?
>>
>
> The problem with opening this up is that if devs are naive they might
> end up treating 404s and cases where no docid was specified as the
> same.
>
> Probably that's not a big deal. Count me as in favor of exploring an
> API like you suggest.
>
>> Otherwise, I'm guessing it'd be best just to hack around this in my
>> nginx proxy...
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Zach
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Chris Anderson
> http://jchrisa.net
> http://couch.io
>