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shennan
shennan

Reputation: 11676

A Good Point to Create Design Documents in CouchDb

I have a CouchDb instance running a peruser database configuration.

Each user database generated (when a user is added to the _users database) needs to have the same design documents with view/list logic etc.

What is the defacto way to add the design documents to the database upon database creation? Is it simply to add them after a successful user creation request? Or is there a more elegant way of doing this in CouchDb?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 603

Answers (2)

cluxter
cluxter

Reputation: 334

If you plan on using the Follow npm module as @Juanjo Rodriguez suggested, please consider using the Cloudant's version. The Iriscouch's version (the one pointed by @Juanjo Rodriguez) is way out of date. For example it doesn't support CouchDB v2.x among other issues. I worked with the Cloudant's team to improve all this these last days and they just released the updated npm package yesterday here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cloudant-follow?activeTab=versions

The 0.17.0-SNAPSHOT.47 version embarks the patches we worked on so don't use the 0.16.1 (which is officially the latest).

You can read more about the issues we fixed here:

https://github.com/cloudant-labs/cloudant-follow/issues/54

https://github.com/cloudant-labs/cloudant-follow/issues/50

https://github.com/cloudant-labs/cloudant-follow/issues/47

Upvotes: 1

Juanjo Rodriguez
Juanjo Rodriguez

Reputation: 2131

There is not a mechanism for initialize newly created user databases, you should include it in your user creation logic. If you want to decouple user creation and db initialization, I suggest you to explore the following strategy

1 - Create a template database and place on it your design documents that should be applied to every user db

2 - Listen continuously _db_updates endpoint where db level events will be notified. This library can help you.

3 - When a db that matches the user db name pattern is created, you can trigger a replication from the template database to the newly created database using the _replicate endpoint.

Upvotes: 2

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