`multipart.insert` not working when doc `name` is not specified

[Patricia Garcia]

Hi,

creating a doc with attachments without specifying an _id for the doc (example below) is failing for me:

alice.multipart.insert({ foo: 'bar' }, [{name: 'rabbit.png', data: data, content_type: 'image/png'}], function(err, body) {
        if (!err)
          console.log(body);
    });

I don't see any error, just the doc is not created in the database, but everything goes fine when I specify a doc name, as in here:

alice.multipart.insert({ foo: 'bar' }, [{name: 'rabbit.png', data: data, content_type: 'image/png'}], 'mydoc', function(err, body) {
        if (!err)
          console.log(body);
    });

According to the documentation params is optional.

This might be a bug? Or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!

[Schmidt]

Hi @patriciagarcia, this indeed looks like a bug. Thanks for reporting!

[Schmidt]

Currently only PUT /{db}/{docid} with multipart/related is supported in CouchDB.
There is a JIRA ticket demanding the POST.

Maybe nano could support the desired behaviour? Then we would need to feature detect it for upcoming CouchDB releases which supports this.

[Schmidt]

In the meantime, I'll fix the docs.

[Schmidt]

Closing this for now.