Question

I used couchdb’s PHP lib to add a view:

public function addView() {
    $design_doc = new stdClass();
    $design_doc->_id = '_design/need';
    $design_doc->language = 'javascript';
    $design_doc->views = array( 'all' => array('map' => "function(doc) { if (doc.type == 'need')  emit(doc.type, doc) }" ) );
    $result = $this->client->storeDoc($design_doc);
    return $result;
}

In my shell, I viewed its doc to confirm it was created:

curl -X GET mysite.com/bids/_design/need
{
  "_id":"_design/need",
  "_rev":"1-0ed4b41b839ade9ca36fb950cac1c39b",
  "language":"javascript",
  "views":
    {
      "all":
        {
          "map":"function(doc) { if (doc.type == 'need')  emit(doc.type, doc) }"
        }
    }
}

Then when trying to actually execute the view, it throws eacces error:

curl -X GET mysite.com/bids/_design/need/_view/all
{
  "error":"error","reason":"eacces"
}

Permissions: the instance is running as root.

Am I using the wrong syntax to execute the view query?

Could it be that there is an issue with the encoding of the string that was passed via PHP?

Answer 1

There was some issue with character encoding by php. Running the exact same query in curl was successful and the view was then able to run properly