Couchbase Lite bi-directional sync is not working as expected

[miko.reach52]

I’ve resolved it, but gotta say, it was incredible hard just to make sync gateway work

Found the answer here:

Couchbase Lite Sync with authentication

Hello @TurboRudi, Yes. The default sync function doesn’t give the user access to the documents. So when starting the pull replication, Sync Gateway doesn’t know the grocery documents that belong to this user. To have per-user grocery items synced, you could have the following sync function: function(doc, oldDoc) { channel(doc.channels); access(doc.username, doc.channels); } Then, in the grocery documents, add the channels property, it can hold an array of channel names and the username …

I have modified my sync function like so:

function (doc, oldDoc, meta) {
  channel('user');
  // this one was actually needed, so for anyone who wants to work with sync gateway we have to actually dig a bit deeper :(
  access('my-user', 'user');
}