Write them into couch as a standalone arachment.

John

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On Mar 20, 2010, at 4:44 PM, 7zark7 <7zark7@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/20/10 4:30 PM, 7zark7 wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to use CouchDB for serving static files (images, css,  
>> scripts,
>> etc.)
>>
>> The files and directory structure are not under my control, so the  
>> files
>> may be nested under one or more directories. For example:
>>
>> /images/a.gif
>> /images/home/logo.png
>> /scripts/main.js
>> /scripts/prototype/prototype.js
>>
>> etc.
>>
>>
>> This works fine if I create top-level "directory" documents with ids
>> such as:
>> "images",
>> "scripts",
>> etc.
>>
>> and then upload attachments to these.
>>
>> However, I then lose the benefits of a single doc per file, such as
>> per-file metadata, revision info, etc. The "directory" document  
>> revision
>> also changes each time any attachment is modified. I would like to  
>> use
>> this info to determine what to upload, update, and/or remove from  
>> Couch
>> when the file system changes.
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to have a unique document per file, which *also*  
>> allows
>> Couch to directly serve web requests for the original directory
>> structure and file names. (e.g. "/scripts/main.js")
>>
>> I do not want to have another webapp "in front" of Couch to  
>> translate a
>> request for "/scripts/main.js" into "%2fscripts%2fmain.js/data", or
>> "/a1b0e2349f53456/scripts/main.js", etc.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for the help.
>
>
> BTW if it's not clear, I am fine with any url prefix (database name,  
> show function URL, etc) for the above paths as I can easily  
> accommodate that.
>
> Thanks