Initializing document with empty dic fails

db['people'] = {}

returns:

[info] [<0.47.0>] HTTP Request: PUT /strigo-data/people HTTP/1.1
[info] [<0.47.0>] HTTP Error (code 500): {obj,[{error,"EXIT"},
                             {reason,"{function_clause,[{cjson,tokenize,\n
                        [[],{decoder,utf8,null,1,1,any}]},\n              
   {cjson,decode1,2},\n                  {cjson,json_decode,2},\n         
        {mod_couch,handle_doc_put,2},\n                 
{mod_couch,do,1},\n                  {httpd_response,traverse_modules,2},\n
                 {httpd_response,generate_and_send_response,1},\n         
        {httpd_request_handler,handle_response,1}]}"}]}
[info] [<0.47.0>] HTTP Response Code:500

---- solution ----

<jmoiron> line 628 in client.py
<jmoiron> it does "if content:", which is gonna be false on your empty dict
<mahound> yep
<jmoiron> it should be "if not content is None:"
<jmoiron> so yes it does end up doing an empty put
<jmoiron> which is bad
<jmoiron> you can post the bug and include that :)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ilzogo...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2008 at 9:32

lanto03 / couchdb-python

Initializing document with empty dic fails #7