Module CouchRest::RestAPI
In: lib/couchrest/rest_api.rb

CouchRest RestAPI

The basic low-level interface for all REST requests to the database. Everything must pass through here before it is sent to the server.

Five types of REST requests are supported: get, put, post, delete, and copy.

Requests that do not have a payload, get, delete and copy, accept the URI and options parameters, where as put and post both expect a document as the second parameter.

The API will try to intelegently split the options between the JSON parser and RestClient API.

The following options will be recognised as header options and automatically added to the header hash:

  • :content_type, type of content to be sent, especially useful when sending files as this will set the file type. The default is :json.
  • :accept, the content type to accept in the response. This should pretty much always be :json.

The following request options are supported:

  • :method override the requested method (should not be used!).
  • :url override the URL used in the request.
  • :payload override the document or data sent in the message body (only PUT or POST).
  • :headers any additional headers (overrides :content_type and :accept)
  • :timeout and :open_timeout the time in miliseconds to wait for the request, see RestClient API for more details.
  • :verify_ssl, :ssl_client_cert, :ssl_client_key, and :ssl_ca_file, SSL handling methods.

Any other remaining options will be sent to the MultiJSON backend except for the :raw option.

When :raw is true in PUT and POST requests, no attempt will be made to convert the document payload to JSON. This is not normally necessary as IO and Tempfile objects will not be parsed anyway. The result of the request will always be parsed.

For all other requests, mainly GET, the :raw option will make no attempt to parse the result. This is useful for receiving files from the database.

Methods

copy   default_headers   delete   get   post   put  

Public Instance methods

Send a COPY request to the URI provided.

The default RestClient headers used in each request.

Send a DELETE request.

Send a GET request.

[Validate]