5. Changes
5.1. Version 0.10 (2014-07-15)
- Now compatible with Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4
- Added batch processing for the couchdb-dump tool
- A very basic API to access the _security object
- A way to access the update_seq value on view results
5.2. Version 0.9 (2013-04-25)
- Don’t validate database names on the client side. This means some methods
dealing with database names can return different exceptions than before.
- Use HTTP socket more efficiently to avoid the Nagle algorithm, greatly
improving performace. Note: add the {nodelay, true} option to the CouchDB
server’s httpd/socket_options config.
- Add support for show and list functions.
- Add support for calling update handlers.
- Add support for purging documents.
- Add iterview() for more efficient iteration over large view results.
- Add view cleanup API.
- Enhance Server.stats() to optionally retrieve a single set of statistics.
- Implement Session timeouts.
- Add error property to Row objects.
- Add default=None arg to mapping.Document.get() to make it a little more
dict-like.
- Enhance Database.info() so it can also be used to get info for a design
doc.
- Add view definition options, e.g. collation.
- Fix support for authentication in dump/load tools.
- Support non-ASCII document IDs in serialization format.
- Protect ResponseBody from being iterated/closed multiple times.
- Rename iteration method for ResponseBody chunks to iterchunks() to
prevent usage for non-chunked responses.
- JSON encoding exceptions are no longer masked, resulting in better error
messages.
- cjson support is now deprecated.
- Fix Row.value and Row.__repr__ to never raise exceptions.
- Fix Python view server’s reduce to handle empty map results list.
- Use locale-independent timestamp identifiers for HTTP cache.
- Don’t require setuptools/distribute to install the core package. (Still
needed to install the console scripts.)
5.3. Version 0.8 (Aug 13, 2010)
- The couchdb-replicate script has changed from being a poor man’s version of
continuous replication (predating it) to being a simple script to help
kick off replication jobs across databases and servers.
- Reinclude all http exception types in the ‘couchdb’ package’s scope.
- Replaced epydoc API docs by more extensive Sphinx-based documentation.
- Request retries schedule and frequency are now customizable.
- Allow more kinds of request errors to trigger a retry.
- Improve wrapping of view results.
- Added a uuids() method to the client.Server class (issue 122).
- Tested with CouchDB 0.10 - 1.0 (and Python 2.4 - 2.7).
5.4. Version 0.7.0 (Apr 15, 2010)
- Breaking change: the dependency on httplib2 has been replaced by
an internal couchdb.http library. This changes the API in several places.
Most importantly, resource.request() now returns a 3-member tuple.
- Breaking change: couchdb.schema has been renamed to couchdb.mapping.
This better reflects what is actually provided. Classes inside
couchdb.mapping have been similarly renamed (e.g. Schema -> Mapping).
- Breaking change: couchdb.schema.View has been renamed to
couchdb.mapping.ViewField, in order to help distinguish it from
couchdb.client.View.
- Breaking change: the client.Server properties version and config
have become methods in order to improve API consistency.
- Prevent schema.ListField objects from sharing the same default (issue 107).
- Added a changes() method to the client.Database class (issue 103).
- Added an optional argument to the ‘Database.compact` method to enable
view compaction (the rest of issue 37).
5.5. Version 0.6.1 (Dec 14, 2009)
- Compatible with CouchDB 0.9.x and 0.10.x.
- Removed debugging statement from json module (issue 82).
- Fixed a few bugs resulting from typos.
- Added a replicate() method to the client.Server class (issue 61).
- Honor the boundary argument in the dump script code (issue 100).
- Added a stats() method to the client.Server class.
- Added a tasks() method to the client.Server class.
- Allow slashes in path components passed to the uri function (issue 96).
- schema.DictField objects now have a separate backing dictionary for each
instance of their schema.Document (issue 101).
- schema.ListField proxy objects now have a more consistent (though somewhat
slower) count() method (issue 91).
- schema.ListField objects now have correct behavior for slicing operations
and the pop() method (issue 92).
- Added a revisions() method to the Database class (issue 99).
- Make sure we always return UTF-8 from the view server (issue 81).
5.6. Version 0.6 (Jul 2, 2009)
- Compatible with CouchDB 0.9.x.
- schema.DictField instances no longer need to be bound to a Schema
(issue 51).
- Added a config property to the client.Server class (issue 67).
- Added a compact() method to the client.Database class (issue 37).
- Changed the update() method of the client.Database class to simplify
the handling of errors. The method now returns a list of (success, docid,
rev_or_exc) tuples. See the docstring of that method for the details.
- schema.ListField proxy objects now support the __contains__() and
index() methods (issue 77).
- The results of the query() and view() methods in the schema.Document
class are now properly wrapped in objects of the class if the include_docs
option is set (issue 76).
- Removed the eager option on the query() and view() methods of
schema.Document. Use the include_docs option instead, which doesn’t
require an additional request per document.
- Added a copy() method to the client.Database class, which translates to
a HTTP COPY request (issue 74).
- Accessing a non-existing database through Server.__getitem__ now throws
a ResourceNotFound exception as advertised (issue 41).
- Added a delete() method to the client.Server class for consistency
(issue 64).
- The couchdb-dump tool now operates in a streaming fashion, writing one
document at a time to the resulting MIME multipart file (issue 58).
- It is now possible to explicitly set the JSON module that should be used
for decoding/encoding JSON data. The currently available choices are
simplejson, cjson, and json (the standard library module). It is also
possible to use custom decoding/encoding functions.
- Add logging to the Python view server. It can now be configured to log to a
given file or the standard error stream, and the log level can be set debug
to see all communication between CouchDB and the view server (issue 55).
5.7. Version 0.5 (Nov 29, 2008)
- schema.Document objects can now be used in the documents list passed to
client.Database.update().
- Server.__contains__() and Database.__contains__() now use the HTTP HEAD
method to avoid unnecessary transmission of data. Database.__del__() also
uses HEAD to determine the latest revision of the document.
- The Database class now has a method delete() that takes a document
dictionary as parameter. This method should be used in preference to
__del__ as it allow conflict detection and handling.
- Added cache and timeout arguments to the client.Server initializer.
- The Database class now provides methods for deleting, retrieving, and
updating attachments.
- The Python view server now exposes a log() function to map and reduce
functions (issue 21).
- Handling of the rereduce stage in the Python view server has been fixed.
- The Server and Database classes now implement the __nonzero__ hook
so that they produce sensible results in boolean conditions.
- The client module will now reattempt a request that failed with a
“connection reset by peer” error.
- inf/nan values now raise a ValueError on the client side instead of
triggering an internal server error (issue 31).
- Added a new couchdb.design module that provides functionality for
managing views in design documents, so that they can be defined in the
Python application code, and the design documents actually stored in the
database can be kept in sync with the definitions in the code.
- The include_docs option for CouchDB views is now supported by the new
doc property of row instances in view results. Thanks to Paul Davis for
the patch (issue 33).
- The keys option for views is now supported (issue 35).
5.8. Version 0.4 (Jun 28, 2008)
- Updated for compatibility with CouchDB 0.8.0
- Added command-line scripts for importing/exporting databases.
- The Database.update() function will now actually perform the POST
request even when you do not iterate over the results (issue 5).
- The _view prefix can now be omitted when specifying view names.
5.9. Version 0.3 (Feb 6, 2008)
- The schema.Document class now has a view() method that can be used to
execute a CouchDB view and map the result rows back to objects of that
schema.
- The test suite now uses the new default port of CouchDB, 5984.
- Views now return proxy objects to which you can apply slice syntax for
“key”, “startkey”, and “endkey” filtering.
- Add a query() classmethod to the Document class.
5.10. Version 0.2 (Nov 21, 2007)
- Added __len__ and __iter__ to the schema.Schema class to iterate
over and get the number of items in a document or compound field.
- The “version” property of client.Server now returns a plain string
instead of a tuple of ints.
- The client library now identifies itself with a meaningful
User-Agent string.
- schema.Document.store() now returns the document object instance,
instead of just the document ID.
- The string representation of schema.Document objects is now more
comprehensive.
- Only the view parameters “key”, “startkey”, and “endkey” are JSON
encoded, anything else is left alone.
- Slashes in document IDs are now URL-quoted until CouchDB supports
them.
- Allow the content-type to be passed for temp views via
client.Database.query() so that view languages other than
Javascript can be used.
- Added client.Database.update() method to bulk insert/update
documents in a database.
- The view-server script wrapper has been renamed to couchpy.
- couchpy now supports –help and –version options.
- Updated for compatibility with CouchDB release 0.7.0.
5.11. Version 0.1 (Sep 23, 2007)