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Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:07:51 +0100
From: Martin Hewitt <martin@thenoi.se>
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Subject: Re: _replicator endpoint and idempotency
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Thanks Dave, that was my interpretation of the docs as well, but I didn't see the exact phrasing I was looking for so thought it was worth checking out!

Martin


On Friday, 22 June 2012 at 11:53, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:

> On 22 June 2012 04:03, Martin Hewitt <martin@thenoi.se (mailto:martin@thenoi.se)> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Just a quick question - if I have a replication payload and I post the same payload twice to the _replicator endpoint, will it create two replication jobs or is the _id field in the _replicator db a hash of the document?
> > 
> > I'm trying to ensure continuous master-master behaviour and I'm wondering if I need to read and check against the contents of the _replicator db or if CouchDB can sort it out for me!
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Martin
> 
> It's idempotent. Try it and see - you can see the id returned on creation:
> 
> Run 1:
> {"ok":true,"_local_id":"b53bf6d24f7baca426fc0ccbbc5a7a8a+continuous"}
> 
> run 2:
> {"ok":true,"_local_id":"b53bf6d24f7baca426fc0ccbbc5a7a8a+continuous"}
> 
> Or look later on using GET $COUCH/_active_tasks:
> {
> "checkpointed_source_seq": 20122,
> "continuous": true,
> "doc_id": null,
> "doc_write_failures": 0,
> "docs_read": 0,
> "docs_written": 0,
> "missing_revisions_found": 0,
> "pid": "<0.842.3>",
> "progress": 100,
> "replication_id": "b53bf6d24f7baca426fc0ccbbc5a7a8a+continuous",
> "revisions_checked": 0,
> "source": "e2",
> "source_seq": 20122,
> "started_on": 1340360725,
> "target": "e1",
> "type": "replication",
> "updated_on": 1340360935
> },
> 
> And similar info is in couch.log as well of course.
> 
> A+
> Dave
> 
> 


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