_rev VS rev

[Seung Chan Lim]

Hi,

I vaguely remember that if I wanted to update an existing document using PUT I could simply specify the revision in the "_rev" attribute of the updating document itself. Now I look at the docs and it says I should use a "rev" parameter as part of a query string to the HTTP request URL.

Is my memory completely bogus? 

slim

[Jens Alfke]

On May 24, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Seung Chan Lim <djs...@gmail.com> wrote:

I vaguely remember that if I wanted to update an existing document using PUT I could simply specify the revision in the "_rev" attribute of the updating document itself. Now I look at the docs and it says I should use a "rev" parameter as part of a query string to the HTTP request URL.

Either way works. The “_rev” property in the body is more commonly used, though, so I don’t know why our docs would suggest the other way.

—Jens

[Seung Chan Lim]

This is what I'm looking at.

http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile/develop/references/couchbase-lite/rest-api/document/put---db---doc-/index.html

slim