ignore descending=false option instead of throwing an error.

includes a test case

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/couchdb/trunk@656589 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/share/www/script/couch_tests.js b/share/www/script/couch_tests.js
index cf1a4865..5f9cb5ae 100644
--- a/share/www/script/couch_tests.js
+++ b/share/www/script/couch_tests.js
@@ -423,6 +423,9 @@ var tests = {
     restartServer();
     T(db.open(designDoc._id) == null);
     T(db.view("test/no_docs") == null);
+    
+    
+    
   },
 
   view_collation: function(debug) {
@@ -602,6 +605,19 @@ var tests = {
         T(queryResults.rows[j].key == i + 9 - j);
       }
     }
+    
+    // ignore decending=false. CouchDB should just ignore that.
+    for (i = 0; i < docs.length; i += 10) {
+      var queryResults = db.query(queryFun, {startkey:i, startkey_docid:i, 
+                                             descending:false, count:10});
+      T(queryResults.rows.length == 10)
+      T(queryResults.total_rows == docs.length)
+      T(queryResults.offset == i)
+      var j;
+      for (j = 0; j < 10;j++) {
+        T(queryResults.rows[j].key == i + j);
+      }
+    }
   },
 
   view_sandboxing: function(debug) {
diff --git a/src/couchdb/couch_httpd.erl b/src/couchdb/couch_httpd.erl
index 52aa1507..11a380e9 100644
--- a/src/couchdb/couch_httpd.erl
+++ b/src/couchdb/couch_httpd.erl
@@ -599,6 +599,9 @@ parse_view_query(Req) ->
             _ ->
                 Args %already reversed
             end;
+        {"descending", "false"} ->
+          % ignore
+          Args;
         {"skip", Value} ->
             case (catch list_to_integer(Value)) of
             Count when is_integer(Count) ->