Cloudant and CouchDB 2.* compatibility

In theory, the current version of hoodie should be compatible with Cloudant.

However Cloudant - a shared service - doesn’t allow access to the /_config endpoint. So it seems three functions are affected by this:

• https://github.com/hoodiehq/hoodie-server/blob/master/lib/config/db/couchdb-set-config.js
• https://github.com/hoodiehq/hoodie-server/blob/master/lib/config/db/couchdb-get-config.js
• https://github.com/hoodiehq/hoodie-server/blob/master/lib/config/db/couchdb-get-admins.js

It is possible that there is more than this, however this is a good starting point.

After briefly discussing with @gr2m, our best option may be to check the CouchDB vendor before setting/checking the config here: https://github.com/hoodiehq/hoodie-server/blob/master/lib/config/db/couchdb.js

[gr2m]

@hoodie/server is compatible with CouchDB 2.0 and Cloudant via https://github.com/hoodiehq/hoodie-server/releases/tag/v22.0.0. hoodie itself is compatible via https://github.com/hoodiehq/hoodie/releases/tag/v26.0.0 🎉 thanks all!

[benwhite-deltas]

I was trying to run hoodie with CouchDB 2.0.0 - and the server fails to connect to couchdb, apparently due to a change in the API for setting/retrieving couchdb configuration

The /_config endpoint has moved to /_node/<NODENAME>/_config due to the addition of clustering capability, so a prior request to /_membership would be required to find the appropriate node to update.

As @gr2m’s changes would seem to be be removing the necessity of visiting the _config endpoint at all, this will restore compatibility with CouchDB 2.*. The issue name has been updated to include this.