CCCP — CouchDB Curl Copy

A small demo app that shows how you can do fun maintenance tasks with common UNIX tools.

Today curl:

curl $COUCHDBDATABSE | curl -X POST $ANOTHERCOUCHDBDATABASE

How it Works

The key is in lists/bulk_docs.js; It transforms a view result into a JSON object that the CouchDB _bulk_docs API understands.

The rest of this app is just supporting the showcase:

• views/all/map.js is a sample view that just lists all documents.
• _docs are a bunch of example documents.
• bulk.sh is a test script that shows how to invoke the mighty curl.

What is this good for?

Say you want to modify all your documents in one swoop:

1. Write a view that emits a value with whatever your docs should look like.
2. Add cccp’s list function to the database.
3. Do the curl | curl dance and you’re done.

Let me know if you have other uses for this.

Author

Jan Lehnardt jan@apache.org after an idea of Jason Smith jhs@couchone.com

License

MIT.