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https://github.com/AlexMikhalev/couchdbkit

CouchDB python framework
https://github.com/AlexMikhalev/couchdbkit

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About

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`Couchdbkit`_ provides you a full featured and easy client to access and 

manage CouchDB. It allows you to manage a CouchDBserver, databases, doc 

managements and view access. All objects mostly reflect python objects for 

convenience. Server and Databases objects could be used for example as easy 

as using a dict.



Installation

------------



Couchdbkit requires Python 2.x superior to 2.5.



Install from sources::



  $ python setup.py install



Or from Pypi::



  $ easy_install -U couchdbkit

  

Getting started

---------------



This tutorial exposes key features of this library mainly through code

examples. For in-depth description of the modules, you'll want to read 

the `API`_ documentation.



Write your first CouchDB document

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++



::



  import datetime

  from couchdbkit import *

  

  class Greeting(Document):

      author = StringProperty()

      content = StringProperty()

      date = DateTimeProperty()



Store the submitted Greetings

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++



Here is the code to save a greet on `Greeting` database. We also see how to 

create a database::



  # server object

  server = Server()

  

  # create database

  db = server.get_or_create_db("greeting")

  

  # associate Greeting to the db

  Greeting.set_db(db)



  # create a new greet

  greet = Greeting(

      author="Benoit",

      content="Welcome to couchdbkit world",

      date=datetime.datetime.utcnow()

  )

  

  # save it 

  greet.save()



Note: Here we use `contain` to associate the db to the `Greeting` object. 

This function could be use to associate multiple dcouemnt objects to one db::



  contain(db, Doc1, ...)



Your document `greet` is now in the `greetings` db. Each document is saved 

witha `doc_type` field that allow you to find easily each kind of document 

with the views. By default `doc_type` is the name of the class.



Now that you saved your document, you can update it::



  greet.author = u"Benoit Chesneau"

  greet.save()



Here we updated the author name.



Dynamic properties

++++++++++++++++++



Mmm ok, but isn't CouchDB storing documents schema less? Do you want to add a 

property ? Easy::



  greet.homepage = "http://www.e-engura.org"

  greet.save()



Now you have just added an homepage property to the document.



Get all greetings

+++++++++++++++++



You first have to create a view and save it in the db. We will call it 

`greeting/all`. To do this we will use the loader system of couchdbkit that 

allows you to send views to CouchDB.



Let's create a folder that contains the design doc, and then the folder for 

the view. On unix::



  mkdir -p ~/Work/couchdbkit/example/_design/greeting/views/all



In this folder we edit a file `map.js`::



  function(doc) { 

    if (doc.doc_type == "Greeting") 

      emit(doc._id, doc); 

      }

  }



Here is a folder structure::



  /Work/couchdbkit/example/:



  --_design/

  ---- greetings

  ------ view



Here is a  screenshot:

  

.. image:: http://couchdbkit.org/images/gettingstarted.png



A system will be provided to manage view creation and other things. As some 

noticed, this system works like 

`couchapp`_.



Then we use `FileSystemDocsLoader` object to send the design document to 

CouchDB::



  from couchdbkit.loaders import FileSystemDocsLoader

  

  loader = FileSystemDocsLoader('/path/to/example/_design')

  loader.sync(db, verbose=True)



The design doc is now in the `greetings` database and you can get all greets::



  greets = Greeting.view('greeting/all')



.. _Couchdbkit: http://couchdbkit.org

.. _API: http://couchdbkit.org/doc/api/

.. _couchapp:  http://github.com/couchapp/couchapp/tree/