[erlang-questions] How to access CouchDB?

[Benoit Chesneau]

or just use couchbeam ...


On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Yves S. Garret
<yoursurrogategod@REDACTED>wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Yves S. Garret <yoursurrogategod@REDACTED
> > wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Benoit Chesneau <bchesneau@REDACTED>wrote:
>>
>>> not sure if it can help but you can use http://github.com/benoitc/couchcwhich abstract the internal couchdb api .
>>>
>>> - benoitc
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, August 9, 2013, Yves S. Garret wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have a small database that's running right now in CouchDB, it's
>>>> called sample_database.  What I'd
>>>> like to do is to read, create, delete, update documents and run some of
>>>> the views inside from an
>>>> Erlang app.  I looked online and found this example:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.softwarepassion.com/importing-data-to-couchdb-java-ruby-and-erlang-way/
>>>>
>>>> From that, I proceeded to make the following little script:
>>>> -module(test).
>>>>
>>>> -import(queue,[in/1,out/1,new/0]).
>>>> -export([start/0]).
>>>> -include("../couch_db.hrl").
>>>>
>>>> -define(ADMIN_USER_CTX, {user_ctx, #user_ctx{roles = [<<"_admin">>]}}).
>>>>
>>>> start() ->
>>>>   io:format("Hello world!~n~n"),
>>>>
>>>>    couch_db:open(<<"sample_database">>, [?ADMIN_USER_CTX]).
>>>>
>>>> However, when I run this, I get the following error:
>>>> 18> test:start().
>>>> Hello world!
>>>>
>>>> ** exception error: undefined function couch_db:open/2
>>>>
>>>> It's obvious I'm not including a library of some sort.  I'm curious how
>>>> I can connect to my little
>>>> database in the simplest way possible just to start with.  Has anyone
>>>> done this before?
>>>>
>>>
>> And I've spoken too soon :) .
>>
>> This is the code that I currently have:
>>
>> -module(test).
>>
>> -import(queue,[in/1,out/1,new/0]).
>> -export([start/0]).
>> %         /opt/local/lib/couchdb/erlang/lib/couch-1.3.1/ebin
>>
>> -include("/opt/local/lib/couchdb/erlang/lib/couch-1.3.1/include/couch_db.hrl").
>>
>> -define(ADMIN_USER_CTX, {user_ctx, #user_ctx{roles = [<<"some_user">>]}}).
>>
>> start() ->
>>    io:format("Hello world!~n~n"),
>>
>>   couch_db:open(<<"sample_database">>, [?ADMIN_USER_CTX]).
>>
>> It compiles just fine, but when I run it, this is the error that I get:
>> > c(test).
>> {ok,test}
>> > test:start().
>> Hello world!
>>
>> ** exception error: bad argument
>>      in function  ets:lookup/2
>>         called as ets:lookup(couch_config,{"replicator","db"})
>>      in call from couch_config:get/3 (couch_config.erl, line 62)
>>      in call from couch_server:maybe_add_sys_db_callbacks/2
>> (couch_server.erl, line 89)
>>      in call from couch_server:open/2 (couch_server.erl, line 64)
>>      in call from couch_db:open/2 (couch_db.erl, line 79)
>>
>> I'll be digging into why this is happening.
>>
>
> As a work around, I'm thinking of using os:cmd("curl -i -X GET ..."), but
> that seems like it could
> be done better.
>
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