Error about 'invalid JSON' with couchDB view but the json's fine

Question

I am trying to setup the following view on CouchDB

{
\"_id\":\"_design/id\",
\"_rev\":\"1-9be2e55e05ac368da3047841f301203d\",
\"language\":\"javascript\",
    \"         


        

Answer 1

The reason

curl -vX PUT http://localhost:5984/dbname/docid -d {"foo" : "bar"}

Doesn't work is that the quotes are interpolated by the shell using the single quotes escapes the quotes.