Hello there,

I have been doing some work with the API and I have found the
following problem:

Currently I have my objects that returns a dictionary(get_object_data
method) in order to easily serialize it in to a JSON object. This work
perfectly when creating a new doc. The problem I found is when I want
to update a doc in the database doing the following:

# add object
person.id = db.create(person.get_object_data())
person.name = "test"
doc = db[person.id]
# I get all the data because although in the example I just changed
name, thee are cases where more is changed.
doc = person.get_object_data()

Bare in mind that the dict returned bey )get)object_data is usually
like this:

{
    'surname': 'de la Pena',
    'addresses': [
        {
            'city': 'Brussels',
            'country': 'Belgium',
            'state': 'Brussels',
            'street': 'Rue du Prevot',
            'postcode': '1050',
            'address_type': 'Work',
            'type': 'Address',
            'location': 'Local'
        }, {
            'city': 'Madrid',
            'country': 'Spain',
            'state': 'Madrid',
            'street': 'C/Caracas 19 6 drch',
            'postcode': '28010',
            'address_type': 'Work',
            'type': 'Address',
            'location': 'Local'}],
      'social_accounts': [],
      'middleName': '',
      'title': 'Mr.',
      'comments': '',
      'id': u'49e43cf1bb70d65f7235c1ee1809d707',
      'webs': [],
      'ims': [],
      'preferred_address':
      {
          'city': 'Madrid',
          'country': 'Spain',
          'state': 'Madrid',
          'street': 'C/Caracas 19 6 drch',
          'postcode': '28010',
          'address_type': 'Work',
          'type': 'Address',
           'location': 'Local'
       },
       'numbers': [
            {
                  'regional_code': '',
                  'international_code': '',
                  'type': 'TelephoneNumber',
                  'number': '22333',
                  'number_type': 'Work'
            },
            {
                  'regional_code': '',
                  'international_code': '',
                  'type': 'TelephoneNumber',
                  'number': '9231933',
                  'number_type':
                  'Work'
             }],
             'printMode': 0,
             'logo': '',
             'type': 'Person',
             'emails': [
                  {
                        'email_type': 'Home',
                        'type': 'EmailAddress',
                        'email': 'eti...@gmail.com',
                        'format': 'Internet'
                  },
                  {
                        'email_type': 'Home',
                        'type': 'EmailAddress',
                        'email': 'man...@themacaque.com',
                        'format': 'Internet'
                  }],
     'name': 'Manuel'

When executing the above code I get the following exception:

File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 527,
in update
    raise TypeError('expected dict, got %s' % type(doc))
TypeError: expected dict, got <type 'str'>

Which I find very odd,
 can anyone give me a hand with this.

Kr,

Mandel

2009/7/17 Mandel <eti...@gmail.com>:

It's quite difficult to help because your example doesn't actually
call Database.update(docs) anywhere.

However, from the exception, it looks like one of the documents you
passed to update is a string (a str instance). Each document must be
either a dict (or subclass) instance or something with a dict-like
items() method.

- Matt