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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:24:48 +0100
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Subject: Re: How to cancel a continuous replication task
From: Robert Newson <robert.newson@gmail.com>
To: user@couchdb.apache.org
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Did you get an {"ok":true,"_local_id":"foo"} response from the first
_replicate call?

I've just verified that adding "cancel":true to the original
_replicate setting cancels the task. Perhaps you're on an earlier
version than this feature?

B.

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Zachary Zolton
<zachary.zolton@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I know you're supposed to be able to cancel a continuous replication
> task by adding "cancel":true to the JSON body, but I've never been
> able to get it working.
>
> For example, I just started this replication job:
>
> curl -X POST 'http://localhost:5984/_replicate' -d
> '{"source":"my-db","target":"http://username:pass@couch.host/target-db","continuous":true,"create_target":true}'
>
> Then, I tried to cancel it:
>
> curl -X POST 'http://localhost:5984/_replicate' -d
> '{"source":"my-db","target":"http://username:pass@couch.host/target-db","continuous":true,"cancel":true}'
>
> I get the following result:
>
> {"error":"not_found"}
>
> Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong here?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Zach
>
>
> P.S. I'm aware of the instructions on the wiki:
> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Replication#Cancelling_a_continuous_replication_task
>