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James Eisenlohr
James Eisenlohr

Reputation: 278

How to create a new CouchDB User without Futon or Curl?

I'm searching for a way to create a new CouchDB user without using Futon or Curl... just a straight http request.

One way I found (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3456256/error-creating-user-in-couchdb-1-0) puts a JSON doc to "http://localhost:5984/_users/org.couchdb.user:username" to create a user.

I have attempted the following:

<cfhttp url="http://127.0.0.1/_users/org.couchdb.user:xyz_company" port="5984" method="PUT" username="#variables.couch_username#" password="#variables.couch_password#">
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-Type" value="application/json">
<cfhttpparam type='body' name='org.couchdb.user:xyz_company' value='{"roles":[],"name":"xyz_company","salt":"3B33BF09-26B9-D60A-8F469D01286E9590","id":"org.couchdb.user:xyz_company","password_sha":"096EA41A5A81EA1507F2C6F7EDC364C0B82694AC","type":"user"}'>

I keep receiving the following back from Couch:

cfhttp.statuscode = 405 Method Not Allowed cfhttp.filecontent = Method Not Allowed; The requested method PUT is not allowed for the URL /_users/org.couchdb.user:xyz_company

Any thoughts or suggestions?

UPDATE:

I edited my code based on Marcello's suggestions. I still receive the same 405 Method Not Allowed error. Here is the code now:

<cfhttp url="http://127.0.0.1/_users/org.couchdb.user:xyz_company" port="5984" method="PUT" username="#variables.couch_username#" password="#variables.couch_password#"><cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-Type" value="application/json;charset=UTF-8"><cfhttpparam type='body' value='{"roles":[],"name":"xyz_company","salt":"3B33BF09-26B9-D60A-8F469D01286E9590","_id":"org.couchdb.user:xyz_company","password_sha":"096EA41A5A81EA1507F2C6F7EDC364C0B82694AC","type":"user"}'></cfhttp>

Any more suggestions? Thank you!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 916

Answers (1)

Michael Lorton
Michael Lorton

Reputation: 44396

curl is a straight http request. There are other ways to create such requests: you can craft them with your browser; you can use a different program (e.g. wget); or even write your own (e.g. in Python or in JavaScript with V8 or Rhino).

Upvotes: 1

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