Coderguy’s Blog

So this is one of those stupid little development issues that eats up an hour of your time.  I am documenting this in hopes that it will save someone from wasting an hour of your time.

I am learning couchdb and using curl to interact with it’s RESTful api.  I wrote a view and was trying to limit it by a key.  I was issuing the commands:

curl -X GET http://127.0.0.1:5984/blog/_design/posts/_view/by_author?key="rob"

I was getting a 500 error for invalid json.  When I pasted the URL in the web browser I got a valid response.  The problem was that you needed to escape the quotes on the curl call as %22 not “.

curl -X GET http://127.0.0.1:5984/blog/_design/posts/_view/by_author?key=%22rob%22

Keep in mind you only have to put the quotes around string values a not around numeric values.

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