Cloudant Importer Plugin for DocPad

Import Cloudant collections into DocPad collections.

(Cloudant is a hosted CouchDB-compatible database from IBM with a fairly generous free tier.)

Based on https://github.com/nfriedly/docpad-plugin-mongodb

Install

docpad install cloudant

Configuration

Add the following to your docpad configuration file:

plugins:
  cloudant:
    collections: [
      cloudantConfig: {account: "foo", password: "bar"} // passed directly to the [node.js client](https://github.com/cloudant/nodejs-cloudant), so a `url` is also accepted
      dbName: "posts"
      collectionName: "blog_posts" # defaults to dbName
      relativeDirPath: "blog" # defaults to dbName
      extension: ".html" # defaults to .json
      meta:
        layout: "blogpost"
    ]

Creating a File Listing

As imported documents are just like normal documents, you can also list them just as you would other documents. Here is an example of a index.html.eco file that would output the titles and links to all the blog posts from the simple example above:

<h2>Blog:</h2>
<ul><% for post in @getCollection('posts').toJSON(): %>
	<li>
		<a href="<%= post.url %>"><%= post.title %></a>
	</li>
<% end %></ul>

Using a view instead of fetching every document in the database

This allows you to limit and adjust the data in the cloundant database before downloading it to the docpad database.

plugins:
  cloudant:
    collections: [
      cloudantConfig: {account: "foo", password: "bar"} // passed directly to the [node.js client](https://github.com/cloudant/nodejs-cloudant), so a `url` is also accepted
      dbName: "posts"
      collectionName: "my_view_collection"
      viewDocument:
        _id: "_design/my_design_document"
        views:
          my_view:
            # the map function is sent to couchdb as a string.. but you can just wrap a regular function in parenthesis and call .toString() on it ;)
            map: ((doc) ->
                emit doc._id, doc
              ).toString()
      alwaysReplaceViewDocument: false # When true, the existing view is deleted and recreated before fetching the documents. (This is handy when you're updating your view function.)
    ]

MIT License

Copyright (c) 20154 Nathan Friedly - http://nfriedly.com/

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.