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Subject: Rewrite /user/bob to user:bob
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:47:34 -0400
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Hello,

I'm trying to write a couchapp with multiple users. Two users can't have =
the same name, since I want to access user bob's profile through =
/user/bob.
Similarly, I store other documents (let's call them stuffs) with unique =
ids that I would like to access through /stuff/somestuff.
A user can have the same name as a stuff, and vice versa. That's why I =
can't use bob or somestuff as _id (otherwise I couldn't have a stuff =
named bob or a user named somestuff).

I see 3 options:
use different databases for users and stuffs, but that means two design =
documents and it kind of defeats the purpose of couchapps
use uuids and deal with names in a custom manner. Sounds difficult. I =
would really prefer the third option:
use a naming convention for ids, like user:bob and stuff:somestuff.

My favorite choice so far is the third option. The colon can be replaced =
by any character, like dash, underscore, comma, @ or even nothing if =
this can help. The prefix can also be a postfix.
I initially tried with a forward slash which was perfect until I =
realized it was not really supported and it caused problems with update =
functions (see COUCHDB-1229).

Is it possible to rewrite /user/bob to, for instance, =
/_show/profile/user:bob or /_show/profile/user_bob ?
I tried {"from": "user/*", "to": "_show/profile/user:bob"} and variants =
with no success.

If it is not possible, what would be the best alternative?

Thanks a lot for your help,

Simon


PS: For the sake of learning, I'm trying to write a pure couchapp =
without client-side javascript=85=

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