return Location header for newly create databases

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/trunk@758723 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/share/www/script/test/basics.js b/share/www/script/test/basics.js
index 217f9aef..ebfe5db2 100644
--- a/share/www/script/test/basics.js
+++ b/share/www/script/test/basics.js
@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ couchTests.basics = function(debug) {
     T(xhr.status == 412);
     if (debug) debugger;
 
+    // creating a new DB should return Location header
+    xhr = CouchDB.request("DELETE", "/new-db");
+    xhr = CouchDB.request("PUT", "/new-db");
+    TEquals("/new-db", xhr.getResponseHeader("Location"),
+      "should return newly created database name in location header");
+
     // Get the database info, check the db_name
     T(db.info().db_name == "test_suite_db");
 
diff --git a/src/couchdb/couch_httpd_db.erl b/src/couchdb/couch_httpd_db.erl
index 2bfc2940..92ad98c8 100644
--- a/src/couchdb/couch_httpd_db.erl
+++ b/src/couchdb/couch_httpd_db.erl
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ create_db_req(#httpd{user_ctx=UserCtx}=Req, DbName) ->
     case couch_server:create(DbName, [{user_ctx, UserCtx}]) of
     {ok, Db} ->
         couch_db:close(Db),
-        send_json(Req, 201, {[{ok, true}]});
+        send_json(Req, 201, [{"Location", "/" ++ DbName}], {[{ok, true}]});
     Error ->
         throw(Error)
     end.