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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 14:01:06 +0000
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Subject: Re: HTTP Rewrite Handler: Strings in queries
From: Filipe David Manana <fdmanana@apache.org>
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You should bring this into the development mailing list and/or fill a
Jira ticket.

regards,

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Caolan McMahon <caolan.mcmahon@gmail.com> w=
rote:
> Hi,
>
>> I have this rewrite:
>> {
>> "from": "/u/:key",
>> "to": "_list/pouch/user-items",
>> "method": "GET",
>> "query": {"key": ":key"}
>> }
>>
>> ..which gives me: {"error":"bad_request","reason":"invalid UTF-8 JSON"}
>>
>> Nothing wrong with the JSON, however, the rewrite handler rewrites to th=
is
>> url: example.com/db/_design/app/_list/pouch/user-items?key=3Dsomekey
>>
>> somekey needs to be in double quotes as it is a string. How can I get th=
e
>> rewrite handler to produce ?key=3D"somekey" ?
>
>
> I agree, this is really annoying! The way I've been working around it
> is to use a complex key for the view instead. You can rewrite using
> {startkey: [':key'], endkey: [':key',{}]} ...and that seems to work
> fine.
>
> Hope that helps for now. Hopefully this behaviour will be changed at some=
 point.
>
> Caolan
>


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