commit | 033768ddffb84e6e849230e292321ad3531294ce | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Klaus Trainer <klaus_trainer@posteo.de> | Wed Aug 19 12:23:20 2015 +0200 |
committer | Klaus Trainer <klaus_trainer@posteo.de> | Wed Aug 19 12:23:20 2015 +0200 |
tree | 78daac6af837153e8acaa233ec1f96e57136c3aa | |
parent | a7e74f02f49c597ce06a55aabb0080965b0e46c9 [diff] |
Match return values
couchdb_peruser is a CouchDB daemon that ensures that a private per-user database exists for each document in _users. These databases are writable only by the corresponding user. Databases are in the form:
userdb-{hex encoded username}
For example, the user bob
will have a database named userdb-626f62
.
The reason for hex encoding is that CouchDB usernames have no restrictions, but CouchDB databases have restrictions. Hex encoding the UTF-8 representation of the username is a transformation that's easy to correctly implement in just about any language, especially JavaScript and Erlang. Other encodings would be possible, but would require additional client and server-side code to support that encoding. This is the simplest scheme that is obviously correct.