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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:42:41 +0200
From: svilen <az@svilendobrev.com>
To: user@couchdb.apache.org
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code topics
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how about putting these as coding snippets in the wiki?
digging mail archives may not be done by many.
these make the read-update cycle look less scary and more "atomic".

svil


On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:44:17 -0400
Jeff Charette <iomatix@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I do something similar.  Here it is in case anyone wants to look at
> it from a slightly different code perspective.
> 
>    /* underscore and underscore string are not needed, just my
> preference */ var _ = require('underscore')._,
>      _s = require('underscore-string'),
>      globalKeys = ['_id', '_rev', 'template', 'type', 'permissions'];
> 
>     exports.edit = function (doc, req) {
> 
> 	/* add values from request */
> 	_.each(req.form, function(val, key) {
> 		if (globalKeys.indexOf(key) === -1) {
> 			try {
> 		        doc[key].value = JSON.parse(req.form[key]);
> 		    }
> 			catch (e) {
> 		        if (typeof doc[key] !== 'undefined') {
> 					doc[key].value =
> req.form[key]; }
> 		    }
> 		}
> 	});
> 	
>     return [doc, {
>         code: 200,
>         headers: {
>           'Content-Type': 'application/json'
>          },
>         body: JSON.stringify('render to template or return success')
>     }];
>     };
> 
> You simply post to '_update/edit/docid' with form content.
> 
> Jeff Charette | Principal 
> We Are Charette
> web / identity / packaging
> 
> m  415.298.2707
> w  wearecharette.com
> e   jeffrey@wearecharette.com
> 
> On Mar 25, 2013, at 12:46 PM, "Pearce, Martyn" <Martyn.Pearce@gs.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > thanks
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Hahn [mailto:mark@hahnca.com] 
> > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 4:45 PM
> > To: user
> > Cc: CouchDB Developers
> > Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code topics
> > 
> > Here is the code in a gist ..
> > https://gist.github.com/mark-hahn/5238514
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Pearce, Martyn
> > <Martyn.Pearce@gs.com>wrote:
> > 
> >> Posting it here would be a great start.  That would imply
> >> permission for interested parties to post it on an examples page,
> >> I think.
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Mark Hahn [mailto:mark@hahnca.com]
> >> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 3:59 PM
> >> To: user
> >> Cc: CouchDB Developers
> >> Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code topics
> >> 
> >> How would you suggest I publish it?  I don't have a blog.  I guess
> >> I could post it here for now.  It's not very big.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Pearce, Martyn
> >> <Martyn.Pearce@gs.com
> >>> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> It would be a great published example/howto if you were willing to
> >> publish
> >>> your code for that.
> >>> 
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Mark Hahn [mailto:mark@hahnca.com]
> >>> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 6:14 PM
> >>> To: user
> >>> Cc: CouchDB Developers
> >>> Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code topics
> >>> 
> >>>> Implement partial reads and updates of documents,
> >>> 
> >>> In case anyone didn't know, you can do partial updates right now
> >>> with an update handler.  I have been using one for some time that
> >>> allows the app
> >> to
> >>> modify any part of a doc with a single http request.  It even
> >>> allows one
> >> to
> >>> modify an attribute nested inside objects.  I've ended up using
> >>> only this for all updates.