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From: Ben Atkin <ben@benatkin.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 08:15:29 -0700
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Subject: Re: ANN: js2json and json2js (for CouchApps)
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Jim,

Yes, but I haven't taken a look in a while. Thank you for reminding me
of it! I'm going to use it for my first CouchApp example with json2js.

It saves me a ton of work. :)

Ben

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Jim Klo <jim.klo@sri.com> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> Granted this is much less framework. But have you seen Kanso? http://kan.so
>
> It would be nice if your solution used a command like tool rather than having to script each serialization.
>
> - Jim
>
> On Sep 4, 2012, at 2:52 AM, "Ben Atkin" <ben@benatkin.com> wrote:
>
>> I made a couple of npm (node.js) modules for editing CouchDB design
>> documents that involves fewer files than python CouchApp, but like
>> python CouchApp supports two-way sync. The function source is left
>> intact when converting between JavaScript source and JSON. The
>> JavaScript source version just shows it in an embedded function
>> expression, which makes it syntax highlightable.
>>
>> http://benatkin.com/2012/09/04/js2json-and-json2js/
>> https://github.com/benatkin/js2json
>> https://github.com/benatkin/json2js
>>
>> Here's a quick example. If I stick this in books.js:
>>
>> module.exports = {
>>  "views": {
>>    "author": {
>>      "map": function(doc) {
>>        if (doc.type == 'book')
>>          emit(doc.author, null);
>>      }
>>    },
>>    "title": {
>>      "map": function(doc) {
>>        if (doc.type == 'book')
>>          emit(doc.title, null);
>>      }
>>    }
>>  }
>> }
>>
>> ...and run this (after npm install json2js js2json):
>>
>> var js2json = require('js2json');
>> var json2js = require('json2js');
>> var fs = require('fs');
>>
>> var jsSource = fs.readFileSync('books.js', 'utf8');
>> var jsonValue = js2json.convert(jsSource);
>> fs.writeFileSync('books.json', JSON.stringify(jsonValue, null, 2) + "\n");
>> var jsSourceFromJson = json2js.convert(jsonValue);
>> fs.writeFileSync('books-from-json.js', jsSourceFromJson + "\n");
>>
>> ...I get the following in books.json:
>>
>> {
>>  "views": {
>>    "author": {
>>      "map": "function(doc) {\n  if (doc.type == 'book')\n
>> emit(doc.author, null);\n}"
>>    },
>>    "title": {
>>      "map": "function(doc) {\n  if (doc.type == 'book')\n
>> emit(doc.title, null);\n}"
>>    }
>>  }
>> }
>>
>> ...and books-from-json.js is exactly the same as books.js.
>>
>> I explain it more in my blog post (linked at the top of this message).
>> I need to add a cli tool that syncs, a way to handle attachments, and
>> a way to handle embedded multiline strings for it to be a
>> full-featured design doc editor. I have much bigger plans for this,
>> though: I want to break up CouchApps into a bunch of smaller
>> documents! The source and tests for these two modules is programmed in
>> the same style. I think storing functions in JSON makes CouchDB just a
>> little bit like Smalltalk, with a much more familiar language.
>>
>> Thanks for reading. Feedback welcome and appreciated.
>>
>> Ben