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Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:25:22 +0100
From: Heike Bernhard <heikebernhard@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: Validate_doc_update required fields - can't delete documents
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Heike Bernhard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to CouchDB and I've just wrote my first validate function
> (thanks to the book "CouchDB: The definitive guide"). But now I have a
> problem, when I want to delete documents.
> 
> For each document there are two fields required (firstName and lastName)
> and my function looks like this:
> 
> "validate_doc_update": "function(newDoc, oldDoc, userCtx)
> {
>   function require(field, message)
>   {
>     message = message || \"Document requires the field \" + field;
>     if (!newDoc[field]) throw({forbidden : message});
>   };
>   if (newDoc)
>   {
>     require(\"lastName\");require(\"firstName\");
>   }
> }"
> 
> So if I want to delete a document, I get an error, because of the
> required fields:
> 
> user@computer:~$ curl -X DELETE
> http://username:password@localhost:5984/testdb/foo?rev=6-5f2e9784c354bdf95e2d851f7f87d045
> {"error":"forbidden","reason":"Document requires the field lastName"}
> 
> What am I missing?
> Thanks for any hints.
> 
> Heike
> 
> 
Sorry, forgot to mention:
I'm using CouchDB 0.10.0 on Ubuntu 9.04