sofa (version 0.2.0)

db_bulk_update: Create documents via the bulk API

Description

Create documents via the bulk API

Usage

db_bulk_update(cushion, dbname, doc, docid = NULL, how = "rows", as = "list", ...)

Arguments

cushion

A Cushion object. Required.

dbname

(character) Database name. Required.

doc

For now, a data.frame only. Required.

docid

Document IDs, ignored for now, eventually, you can pass in a list, or vector to be the ids for each document created. Has to be the same length as the number of documents.

how

(character) One of rows (default) or columns. If rows, each row becomes a separate document; if columns, each column becomes a separate document.

as

(character) One of list (default) or json

...

Curl args passed on to one of the HTTP verbs (e.g,. GET, POST, PUT, etc.)

Value

Either a list or json (depending on as parameter), with each element an array of key:value pairs:

• ok - whether creation was successful
• id - the document id
• rev - the revision id

Examples

## Not run: 
# # initialize a couchdb connection
# (x <- Cushion$new())
# 
# row.names(mtcars) <- NULL
# 
# if ("bulktest" %in% db_list(x)) {
#   invisible(db_delete(x, dbname="bulktest"))
# }
# db_create(x, dbname="bulktest")
# db_bulk_create(x, mtcars, dbname="bulktest")
# 
# # modify mtcars
# mtcars$letter <- sample(letters, NROW(mtcars), replace = TRUE)
# db_bulk_update(x, "bulktest", mtcars)
# 
# # change again
# mtcars$num <- 89
# db_bulk_update(x, "bulktest", mtcars)
# ## End(Not run)