CouchDB-Lucene is a powerful search engine that can index CouchDB documents and attachments. The example below indexes a database that contains documents from an imaginary items catalog. Each item in the catalog has parts that make up the item. Each part has a part name and part number. Each item document can also have attachments such as MS-Word documents that contain instructions or user manuals or engineering diagrams. For example, an item might be a cell phone which contains […]
Month: November 2014
Quick Tip: Indexing Nested Objects in CouchDB-Lucene
As part of a proof-of-concept for a bill-of-materials (BOM) explosion database in CouchDB, I used CouchDB-Lucene. Here are a few quick screenshots of how I got it to work. I will fill in the details in a future post.
CouchDB User Manager App
Using Futon to manage CouchDB users is fairly straightforward. There’s a few caveats when adding a new user or adding roles to a user or changing a user’s password. So, I set out to create a CouchApp to help manage users through a basic interface. The source is available on GitHub.
HTML Form Data to CouchDB Document with Attachment
This post represents the first steps towards creating a web-enabled document repository. In other words, this is the initial test of a proof-of-concept. The goal of this initial step is to create a record in CouchDB and attach a document to it. For me, being new to NoSQL, this started out much harder than I thought it should be. With any luck, I can clear up some of my confusion that you might experience.