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Simple Raku interface for CouchDB
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# Sofa



Raku interface for CouchDB



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## Synopsis



```



use Sofa;



# use the default of port 5984 on localhost



my $sofa = Sofa.new; 



my $db = $sofa.create-database('test-db');



my $doc-info = $db.create-document({ foo => "bar });



...



$db.delete-document($doc-info);



$db.delete;



```



## Description



This provides access to [CouchDB](http://couchdb.apache.org/) and allows

the creation, retrieval, update and deletion of documents within a

database. Creation, retrieval, update and deletion of couchdb design

documents and the use of the views, lists, shows and updates in them,

and the creation, retrieval, update and deletion of attachments on both

normal and design documents.



## Installation



To test this properly you will need a couchdb instance that you have

administrative access to, though some tests can be performed without

access to a couchdb server at all about two thirds will be skipped.

For convenience it will default to attempting to using an instance

on the local host and default port (5984) without any admin controls,

but the connection and authentication information can be provided

through environment variables that should be set before running the

tests:



	* COUCH_PORT - set the port to connect to. Default is 5984

	* COUCH_HOST - the host to connect to. Default is 'localhost'

	* COUCH_USERNAME - the name of a configured admin user

	* COUCH_PASSWORD - the password of the above admin user



The tests need to have admin privileges because they need to create

databases and manipulate the design documents thereof which both require

the admin privileges.  None of the tests will manipulate an existing

database (except for the authentication database which it does to test

the creation of new users and the authentication of them.) Of course

you probably don't want to run the tests against a production server

anyway, but I can't check whether that is the case for you.



If you are testing with v2.0.0 or later of CouchDB you may have

needed to set the admin user and password as part of the setup of the

server, in which case you will need to set ```COUCH_USERNAME``` and

```COUCH_PASSWORD``` at minimum for the tests.



If you have a working Rakudo installation then you should be

able to install using *zef* (being sure to set the environment

variables described above as required:)



	zef install Sofa



Or if you have a local copy of the source code:



	zef install .



## Support



This module supports most of the common features that you may need

to create an application that uses CouchDB, but if you feel that

it omits something you really must have then please feel free to

suggest or even send a patch. I'd probably prefer any greater

degree of abstraction implemented in a separate module however.



The module should work with both v1.6.1 and v2.0.0 (or greater)

CouchDB servers though it currently doesn't properly support

some of the v2 specific features such as Mango queries and the

clustering API, and also the node specific ```statistics``` and

```config``` APIs.



Please send any suggestions/patches/feedback to

https://github.com/jonathanstowe/Sofa/issues.



## Licence and Copyright



This is free software, please see the [LICENCE](LICENCE) file for details.



© Jonathan Stowe 2015 - 2023