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authorJan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org>2009-11-05 12:19:51 +0000
committerJan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org>2009-11-05 12:19:51 +0000
commitac2900a560c2c4288c4d91622cf3fd6db4959819 (patch)
treee79beb00ba8020b6d6945a2db1c151e9ad2b5e6e
parent198073d4717244773c6f612b496887bbab823356 (diff)
add safety net for code accidents where the document id in a doc delete request got missing accidentally
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/trunk@833036 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
-rw-r--r--share/www/script/test/basics.js7
-rw-r--r--src/couchdb/couch_httpd_db.erl9
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/www/script/test/basics.js b/share/www/script/test/basics.js
index a261b5ae..7e0fe0d6 100644
--- a/share/www/script/test/basics.js
+++ b/share/www/script/test/basics.js
@@ -235,4 +235,11 @@ couchTests.basics = function(debug) {
result = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
T(result.error == "bad_request");
T(result.reason == "`keys` member must be a array.");
+
+ // oops, the doc id got lost in code nirwana
+ xhr = CouchDB.request("DELETE", "/test_suite_db/?rev=foobarbaz");
+ TEquals(400, xhr.status, "should return a bad request");
+ result = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
+ TEquals("bad_request", result.error);
+ TEquals("You tried to DELETE a database with a ?=rev parameter. Did mean to DELETE a document instead?", result.reason);
};
diff --git a/src/couchdb/couch_httpd_db.erl b/src/couchdb/couch_httpd_db.erl
index f7fd24a8..3e33bd79 100644
--- a/src/couchdb/couch_httpd_db.erl
+++ b/src/couchdb/couch_httpd_db.erl
@@ -39,7 +39,14 @@ handle_request(#httpd{path_parts=[DbName|RestParts],method=Method,
{'PUT', []} ->
create_db_req(Req, DbName);
{'DELETE', []} ->
- delete_db_req(Req, DbName);
+ % if we get ?rev=... the user is using a faulty script where the
+ % document id is empty by accident. Let them recover safely.
+ case couch_httpd:qs_value(Req, "rev", false) of
+ false -> delete_db_req(Req, DbName);
+ _Rev -> throw({bad_request,
+ "You tried to DELETE a database with a ?=rev parameter. "
+ ++ "Did mean to DELETE a document instead?"})
+ end;
{_, []} ->
do_db_req(Req, fun db_req/2);
{_, [SecondPart|_]} ->