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Is it possible to update parts of a document in CouchBase?

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Wed, 06/06/2012 - 15:53
calvin21
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I have a document, say {"FirstName":"John", "LastName":"Doe","eMail":"john.doe@johndoe.com"}.

Is there a way to issue a request to simply update one of the attributes of this document, say FirstName, after the document was initially created?

I'm using the java library (couchbase-client-1.1-dp.jar) and while there are methods to read and write full documents, it doesn't look like its possible to update a part of an existing document in place.

Thanks!

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Thu, 06/07/2012 - 23:20
mikew
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Right now you will have to update the entire document. In the future you will be able to update individual fields. You can follow this issue here:

http://www.couchbase.com/issues/browse/MB-5502

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Fri, 06/08/2012 - 13:32
calvin21
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Thanks for your reply.. Isn't CouchBase based on CouchDb? I'm curious as to why CouchBase doesn't support updates if CouchDb does..

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Fri, 06/08/2012 - 22:07
mikew
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Couchbase uses CouchDB technology, but it's not based on CouchDB. As a result we do not support all of the CouchDB features. We do plan on supporting many of the ideas implemented in CouchDB in the future though.

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