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

It might be necessary to put your JSON into single quotes:

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

works for me but

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

throws the error you mention. I guess the shell somehow interferes with the data you send when you omit the single quotes.

edit: I'm using bash.

Answer 2

Did you update CouchDB from source recently? If so, be sure to remove all old files.

Answer 3

@titanoba hinted at the problem:

The -d option of curl expects the actual data as the argument!

If you want to provide the data in a file, you need to prefix it with @:

curl -X PUT -d @keys.json  $CDB/_design/id

Answer 4

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.