Accessing CB Lite via jQuery

[David Maier]

Hi, 

just playing around with CBLite for Phonegap. I already was able to get the URL of the local CB Lite instance and also could create database. But if I want to PUT a document, then I am getting a 'Bad Gateway' error.

The example source code is available here:

https://github.com/dmaier-couchbase/cbl-phonegap-chatdemo/blob/master/www/js/index.js

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Regards, Davi

[Jens Alfke]

What's the exact URL of the PUT, the exact JSON body, and the exact error message?

—Jens

[David Maier]

Hi Jens,

I investigated the CBLite log files and found out that it is an issue with jQuery escaping characters. So if you pass a JSON object as data it is actually handling it as a String by escaping E.G the brackets. You can avoid it by using:

function doPut(purl, pdata, callback, errCallback)

{

    var request = {

        url: purl,

        processData : false,

        type: 'PUT',

        data: pdata,

        contentType: "application/json",

        success: callback,

        error: errCallback

    };

    

    log("Requesting " + JSON.stringify(request)); 

    $.ajax(request);

}

So the  'processData : false' helped me in this case. Also I then had to pass my JSON data over as string directly by using JSON.stringify. So the solution for me is actually:

/**

 * Helper to execute a HTTP PUT

 */

function doPut(purl, pdata, callback, errCallback)

{

    var strdata = JSON.stringify(pdata);

    

    var request = {

        url: purl,

        processData : false,

        type: 'PUT',

        data: strdata,

        contentType: "application/json",

        success: callback,

        error: errCallback

    };

    

    log("Requesting " + JSON.stringify(request)); 

    $.ajax(request);

}