Design docs (views) created via REST API don't work. "Show Results" is grayed out. 404 error in client.

I have seen this problem also since Beta 2.0

Which client library are you using?

When you create a view using the REST API, use the "dev_" prefix on the design document name to make it a "development view".

Example "_design/dev_beer" If this prefix doesn't exist, it will create a "production view". Production views are not editable, but as you mention you can copy them to dev if you create a production view. 

Example: curl -X PUT -H'content-type:application/json' -d '{"views": {"name": {"map": "function (doc) {emit(doc.name), null}"}}}' http://ec2-xxx.us-west.compute...:8092/default/_design/dev_test-ddocs
{"ok":true,"id":"_design/dev_test-ddocs"}

In addition, for beta there have been changes to the way document metadata is handled. 
Read more here: 

http://www.couchbase.com/docs/couchbase-manual-2.0/couchbase-server-rn_2-0-0f.html

 Hope this helps. 

I've been doing this through the REST API instead of the client library, because I did not know that the C# client library was able to save design documents. The 2.0 documentation only mentions the REST API if you want to save design docs. However, I was recently informed via IRC that the documentation is outdated and that the C# client library can in fact save design documents!

https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-net-client/blob/master/src/Couchb...

I will try that as soon as I can.

Updated my tool to use the SDK instead of the REST API. Same problem. Views return 404 when I try to use them until I "enable" them in the web console. I haven't updated my JSON yet to the new format, so that might the actual source of all my problems.

are you using the "dev_" prefix when you name the design document? Only then will it be editable.

I get this issue with or without the "dev_" prefix. I do not care about editing the view from the web console. I just want to be able to use a view that I *successfully* saved in Couchbase. When I call client.GetView().Key(foo), I get back 404 or no results. I see data in Couchbase and I can run the view manually in the web console, but I doesn't work in my client code until I "enable" it from the web console.

Could you post a snippet of the code you used to create a design doc?

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Finally found time to tackle this problem again. I created a test project to see if I could duplicate this issue under other conditions. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I could not duplicate this problem in my tests. My real code still fails. Currently trying to pin-point what I'm doing differently between my real code and my tests. They're both using the same SDK version.

Ok, finally figured it out.

Couchbase does not accept views with carriage returns. I'm developing on windows, so I write my views in .js files and save them to Couchbase programmatically. Once I stripped out \r from my views, it worked.

Hi Jinushan, would you mind sharing your code to create views automatically?

Nothing special. It's in the official SDK, but undocumented for C#. (Documentation exists for Ruby, however) Had to look in the unit tests in GitHub to find their usage in C#

https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-net-client/blob/master/src/Couchb...

The code below is C# specific, but any blob of JSON will do as long as it conforms to the design document format.

http://www.couchbase.com/docs/couchbase-manual-2.0/couchbase-views-desig...

var doc = new {
    views = new
    {
        foobar = new
        {
            map = "function (doc, meta) { emit(meta.id, null); }"
        }
    }
};
 
var cluster = new Couchbase.Management.CouchbaseCluster("couchbase");
var success = cluster.CreateDesignDocument("bucketName", "docName", JsonConvert.SerializeObject(doc));