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Asked: 2026-06-13T18:23:03+00:00

I tried to test couchDB’s _revs_diff api to get document revisions. Here is the

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I tried to test couchDB’s _revs_diff api to get document revisions. Here is the command I used 

curl -X POST http://******:******@localhost:5984/grocery-sync/_revs_diff -H "Content-type:application/json"

the result is

{"error":"unknown_error","reason":"badarg"}

Does anyone know the reason for that?

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  1. Editorial Team

    According to the CouchDB wiki page, _revs_diff will return a value if the revisions for a given document are invalid. No examples using curl are given.

    Looking at this mailing list posting the problem appears to be that you need to include document and revision information, like this:

    $ curl -X POST -H "Content-type:application/json" \
   http://*:*@localhost:5984/grocery-sync/_revs_diff \
   -d '{"0d63eac0ca9a37daa062b23853a4cf4d":["1-e9e4e9c76323a267ff4f780f9f979b9f", "12-3286453e55eb2c401bc194670075f942"]}'

    Where the dictionary key (0d63...cf4d) is the document id and the array are revision ids. In this example both revisions (1-... and 12-...) are present in the database so the response is 

    {}

    If I provide a missing revision id (one I invented):

    $ curl -X POST -H "Content-type:application/json"  \
  http://*:*@localhost:5984/grocery-sync/_revs_diff \
  -d '{"0d63eac0ca9a37daa062b23853a4cf4d":["1-abcdef"]}'

    The response is 

    {"0d63eac0ca9a37daa062b23853a4cf4d":{"missing":["1-abcdef"]}}
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