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Support Json Arrays or custom keys for _bulk_docs
Support Json Arrays or custom keys for _bulk_docs
Summary
The Bulk doc insert works well but only if the data is sent in a very specific format. The "docs" key needs to have the array that needs to be inserted. It would be great if we had a way to customize that a bit.
Desired Behaviour
POST /db/_bulk_docs?arrayKey=keyname
Accepts the data below and adds the multiple documents under
{
"<keyname>": [
{
"key1": "value1"
},
{
"key2": "value2"
}
]
}
Also, it would be great to have a way of also passing the array directly and indicate as such in the parameter
POST /db/_bulk_docs?arrayKey=null
Accepts the data below and adds the multiple documents present in the array.
[
{
"key1": "value1"
},
{
"key2": "value2"
}
]
Additional context
I'm trying to send data to couchdb from a 3rd party tool that has limited capabilities for customization. I know of a few more tools that can send data to webhooks for reporting/audit/alerting etc. and couchdb would be perfect way to ingest,store, query and report on this data.
Years and years ago I believe this was the _bulk_docs
API. We added the object wrapper for a reason that I vaguely recall as security-related, but I don't recall all the details offhand.
I think it would be hard to justify adding support for multiple _bulk-docs formats at this point since it's a fairly established API at this point. Adding modes would make the API description a bit too confusing.