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From: Matteo Caprari <matteo.caprari@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 22:46:12 +0000
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Subject: Re: sample couchdb application
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Hi.

What about testing? Anything worth mentioning?

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Chris Anderson <jchris@apache.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Matteo Caprari <matteo.caprari@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello list.
>>
>> I've cranked up a simple couchapp that mimics stackoverflow.com (if you squint).
>>
>> The idea is to understand couchdb better and provide the base for a
>> tutorial, but
>> before going any deeper, I'd like to hear from you what is wrong and
>> what is good.
>
> This is great stuff. Really cool. I still don't understand all of how
> you've integrated things, but the documentation is really a great
> addition.
>
> I think this is a really cool use case. Thanks for sharing!
>
> One concern I have is that I don't think you need to be building
> custom _ids. You should be able to accomplish your lists and shows
> without messing with custom ids, instead using document parameters in
> views. Custom ids generally just add code-overhead to apps and
> increase the chances of spurious conflicts.
>
> To avoid double posts, PUT with a random docid should be idempotent,
> and fail on duplicate PUTs. If you can't do PUT from your client the
> _bulk_docs POST api should work to, if you specify ids. See how
> jquery.couch.js has an API for getting UUIDs from the Couch and then
> using them on new docs.
>
> Also, in trunk _show is no longer happy to have bogus ids, you'll get
> a 404. You can invoke with no docid at all to accomplish your use
> case.
>
> I'm happy to help more so that when you write your tutorial it
> embodies best practices. Just post any questions to this thread!
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
>
>>
>> So please have a look, but don't expect too much.
>>
>> Demo: http://caprazzi.net:5984/fortytwo/_design/fortytwo/index.html
>> Docs: http://caprazzi.net:5984/fortytwo/_design/fortytwo/docs/index.html
>> Source: http://github.com/mcaprari/fortytwo
>>
>> Docs are created with jsdoc-toolkit and a custom template.
>> I think we could integrate it with couchapp to obtain a "view source" feature.
>>
>> --
>> :Matteo Caprari
>> matteo.caprari@gmail.com
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Chris Anderson
> http://jchrisa.net
> http://couch.io
>


-- 
:Matteo Caprari
matteo.caprari@gmail.com