re-enable 404 handling in show functions while retaining user-friendly error behaviour

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/trunk@906721 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/share/server/render.js b/share/server/render.js
index 45782d76..11c76373 100644
--- a/share/server/render.js
+++ b/share/server/render.js
@@ -227,7 +227,11 @@ var Render = (function() {
         throw(["error", "render_error", "undefined response from show function"]);      
       }
     } catch(e) {
-      renderError(e, fun.toSource());
+      if(args[0] === null) {
+        throw(["error", "not_found", "document not found"]);
+      } else {
+        renderError(e, fun.toSource());
+      }
     }
   };