Customizing the sync gateway and/or CB server beond the sync method

[Harsha Balasubramaniam]

Hi,

I'm new to the couchbase world. I'm experimenting with CBLite to provide good sync and conflict management features to my IOS app. I would like to know if the sync gateway and/or CB server can be customized to add new functionality.

Ex 1: I want to call another service from the sync gateway which will listen to a Rabbit MQ service.

Ex 2: I want to call a rest api which sends the json documents to another data store independent of the couchbase server

What is the list of extension points from the sync gateway and server?

Thanks.

[Jens Alfke]

The Sync Gateway has a REST API that you can call from server-side code. It lets you do things like read and write documents. The “_changes” API provides a feed that can be used to watch document changes in real-time, and that’s a common extension point. Sync Gateway 1.1 (to be released very soon) adds a web-hook API that you can call from your sync function to trigger other changes when a specific change is made.

—Jens