ANN: TouchDB Viewer 0.2 (for Mac)

[Jens Alfke]

TouchDB Viewer is a Mac app for inspecting TouchDB databases. It opens a window with a table view that lets you view and edit all the documents. (You can use it with iOS databases as long as they exist in the simulator, or if you use a 3rd party utility like iExplorer to mount your iOS device’s filesystem on your Mac.)

The new version, 0.2, adds the ability to view the revision tree of a document. This is pretty useful when dealing with conflicts, and I really wish I’d had it a few weeks ago :/ To go to this view, just double-click a document row. To go back, click the database in the ‘breadcrumb’ path selector at the top.

You can download a prebuilt version, or check out the source code.

—Jens

[Maher Ali]

Looks great and thank you for building that!

Just one thing, how come I cannot maximize the two panes? I would like to see all the relevant info or at least copy it to clipboard.

Regards,

Maher

[Jens Alfke]

On Aug 31, 2012, at 6:44 AM, Maher Ali <mahe...@thirdhat.com> wrote:

Just one thing, how come I cannot maximize the two panes? I would like to see all the relevant info or at least copy it to clipboard.

Oops, I did something wrong with the view constraints that broke resizing the window.

I’ve just uploaded a fixed version. This also includes support for the Copy command (copying rows in the left pane captures their document/revision IDs, and copying rows in the right pane captures the property value.)

TouchDBViewer-0.21.zip

—Jens

[Paul Capestany]

Jens — I'd asked you about this at CouchConf, but forgot what your answer had been. If we're using iExplorer to mount our app running on an iPhone as a disk drive, is TouchDB supposed to refresh/update live? 

[Paul Capestany]

*TouchDB Viewer, that is.

[Jens Alfke]

On Oct 22, 2012, at 4:23 PM, Paul Capestany <cape...@gmail.com> wrote:

Jens — I'd asked you about this at CouchConf, but forgot what your answer had been. If we're using iExplorer to mount our app running on an iPhone as a disk drive, is TouchDB Viewer supposed to refresh/update live? 

It doesn’t currently do that when you open a database as a file (instead of an http URL). It would need to watch for filesystem notifications that the database file has changed; not terribly hard to implement, but I haven’t gotten around to it.

—Jens