Server class

class simplecouchdb.client.Server(uri='http://localhost:5984', http=None, headers=None)

Server object that allow you to acces and manage a CouchDB host. A Server object could be used like any dict object.

Properties

uri

Str, uri of couchdb server.

http

An http instance from httplib2.http. Could be used to manage authentification to your server or proxy.

headers

Dict or string, optionnal HTTP headers that you need.

Methods

info()

info of server

Returns:dict

all_dbs()

get list of databases in CouchDb host

create_db(dbname)

Create a database on CouchDb host

Parameters:

• dname – str, name of db

Returns:

Database instance if it’s ok

delete_db(dbname)

delete a database in CouchDB host

Parameters:

• dbname – str, name of database

get_db(dbname)

get database

Parameters:

• dbname – str, name of database

Returns:

Database instance if dbnam in server, None

if it don’t exist.

db_exist(dbname)

test if database exist in CouchDB host.

Parameters:

• dbname – str, name of database

Returns:

bool, True if it exist

compact_db(dbname)

compact database

replicate(source, target)

replicate database. source and target are uri

__contains__(dbname)

__iter__()

__len__()

__nonzero__()

__delitem__(dbname)

__getitem__(dbname)