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scrooge mcDuck
scrooge mcDuck

Reputation: 89

CouchDB Design Document Format

I have a backup of couchdb design documents from an old project. I'm trying to work with this data but I'm not sure what format they are in. Does anyone know? I have a feeling it might be BSON.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 106

Answers (1)

Bernhard Gschwantner
Bernhard Gschwantner

Reputation: 1537

It depends on how you made the backup, but CouchDB uses plain JSON, not BSON (which is MongoDB-specific). If you are talking about the database files CouchDB stores (ending with .couch), these are opaque to the user. If you have a running CouchDB instance (a version < 2.0 is easiest), then you can just put the file in the data folder, and it should be visible in Futon.

You can then backup the design documents to text files - you find more information about tools for backing up CouchDB in this IBM Cloudant blog post.

Upvotes: 1

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