How to access fields of a CouchDB document

Question

I have defined a permits field for a couchdb document like below. I cannot access permits content by *.permits.db I wonder if anybody knows how I can do that.

Answer 1

The cause of your problem is that the value of the permits attribute is badly formatted. You have a string rather than an object.

Change:

"{db: ['TEL', 'PPT',]}"

With:

{"db": ["TEL", "PPT"]}

Please note that if your JSON is not formatted correctly (see JSON specification), it will be automatically turned by CouchDB admin interface into a string. Therefore remember:

• to use double quotes around object keys,
• to use double quotes around object values,
• not to use a comma at the end of an array.