CouchDB 0.8.0 on 9.04 seems broken

[Morten Siebuhr]

Binary package hint: couchdb

When installing and trying to use views, CouchDB returns strange and little-usable errors:

Install:
> sudo apt-get install couchdb

Create DB and design document:
> curl -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:5984/test
> curl -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:5984/test/_design/example -d '{"_id": "_design/example","views": {"foo":{"map": "function(doc)emit(doc._id, doc._rev)}"}}}'

Insert a few dummy pages:
> curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5984/test -d '{}'
> curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5984/test -d '{}'
> curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5984/test -d '{}'

Query of 'foo' view fails:
> curl http://127.0.0.1:5984/basic/_design/example/_view/foo
{'EXIT',
                        {function_clause,
                         [{couch_httpd,handle_db_request,
                           [{mochiweb_request,#Port<0.1161>,'GET',
                             "/basic/_design/example/_view/foo",
                             {1,1},
                             {3,
                              {"user-agent",
                               {'User-Agent',
                                "curl/7.18.2 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.18.2 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.10"},
                               {"host",
                                {'Host',"127.0.0.1:5984"},
                                {"accept",{'Accept',"*/*"},nil,nil},
                                nil},
                               nil}}},
                            'GET',
                            {"basic",<0.80.0>,
                             ["_design","example","_view","foo"]}]},
                          {couch_httpd,handle_request,2},
                          {mochiweb_http,headers,4},
                          {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}}

The exact same sequence of commands works on CouchDB 0.10.0 (under Ubuntu 9.10).

[Morten Siebuhr (msiebuhr)]

The query should be 'curl http://127.0.0.1:5984/test/_design/example/_view/foo' (use the 'test' database instead of the 'basic'; I tried testing on several databases - cut&paste error on my part)

[Roman Yepishev (rye)]

Thanks for reporting this bug.

It looks like you have the syntax error in your map function:
function(doc)emit(doc._id, doc._rev)}
There should be opening brace before emit() call.

Additionally the view needs to be called as:
$ curl http://127.0.0.1:5984/test/_view/example/foo
{"total_rows":3,"offset":0,"rows":[
{"id":"092dd64e04afa25833a276a9873c92cb","key":"092dd64e04afa25833a276a9873c92cb","value":"215513193"},
{"id":"0a8bb6310a6d47c34a16f539018245f4","key":"0a8bb6310a6d47c34a16f539018245f4","value":"972520306"},
{"id":"40525dbd40ef1ed7989fedc65f45e48d","key":"40525dbd40ef1ed7989fedc65f45e48d","value":"328236368"}
]}

Marking this bug as Invalid since the server appears to be working fine.
Tested with couchdb 0.8.0-2 on Ubuntu 9.04