commit | 5ea516867d02ebc0a195fad84d3f62e00744af6f | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Klaus Trainer <klaus_trainer@posteo.de> | Thu Aug 13 17:48:03 2015 +0200 |
committer | Klaus Trainer <klaus_trainer@posteo.de> | Thu Aug 13 17:48:03 2015 +0200 |
tree | f0e5ce2e7e5eea7f41eb8dcd4b18eb60f8befec7 | |
parent | 1b4641e1870a27bd1aa7c8aafc388803936836f8 [diff] |
More refactoring and improvements
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.