CouchDB "_attachments" about lithium HOT 5 CLOSED

please provide some sample code. Looks like we may need to use PUT instead of POST for documents with attachments.

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Hi gwoo,
I am working on the Photoblog tutorial in combination with the CouchDB.
The simple examples provided by the CouchDB explains how to insert a file into a existing document. This worked well in our case:

curl -vX PUT http://CouchDB:5984/photoblog/[-ID-OF-DOCUMENT] /Nikki2.jpg?rev=[-CURRENT-REVISION-] --data-binary @/Niki-de-Saint-Phalle3.jpg -H "Content-type:image/jpg"

The new _attachment entry in the document had the same atributes as provided by the Lithium Framework (size, type ...). Only the _attachment is missing when using Lithium.

As you mentioned we tried to use the PUT method, but this didn't help in the simple matter we tried it as seen in the example code below. Nevertheless the entry got still created in CouchDB but still without the picture.

Extraced from the photoblog tutorial /app/views/edit.html.php with some modifications. We are using the current release (yesterday) of lithium.

    <?=$this->form->field('file', array('type' => 'file', 'method' => 'put')); ?>

Best regards, Nils

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Probably refs Ticket 391 on dev.lithify.me "PUT request 'form' data is lost".

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We'll need to build an abstraction for handling binary data (MongoDB's gridfs object, CouchDB inline and ref'ed attachments). Otherwise we'll end up duplicating code i.e. MIME-type checking etc. This is a medium large task.

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Building such an above mentioned abstraction turned out to be a too ambitious task. As we're not going to support GridFS in MongoDB in the future (see #1305 (comment) for an explanation, same reasons apply here) it makes sense to not support it for CouchDB.

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