willcode2surf / couchnode

libcouchbase node.js access

Couchbase Node.js Client

This library allows you to connect to a Couchbase cluster from Node.js. It is a native Node.js module and uses the very fast libcouchbase library to handle communicating to the cluster over the Couchbase binary protocol.

Useful Links

Source - http://github.com/couchbase/couchnode

Bug Tracker - http://www.couchbase.com/issues/browse/JSCBC

Couchbase Node.js Community - http://couchbase.com/communities/nodejs

Installing

To install the lastest release using npm, run:

npm install couchbase

To install the in development version directly from github, run:

npm install git+https://github.com/couchbase/couchnode.git

Introduction

Connecting to a Couchbase bucket is as simple as creating a new Connection instance. Once you are connect, you may execute any of Couchbases' numerous operations against this connection.

Here is a simple example of instantiating a connection, setting a new document into the bucket and then retrieving its contents:

    var couchbase = require('couchbase');
    var db = new couchbase.Connection({bucket: "default"}, function(err) {
      if (err) throw err;

      db.set('testdoc', {name:'Frank'}, function(err, result) {
        if (err) throw err;

        db.get('testdoc', function(err, result) {
          if (err) throw err;

          console.log(result.value);
          // {name: Frank}
        });
      });
    });

Mock Testing

As part of this library, we include a mock version of the client that supports nearly the exact same feature set as the library itself, but which does not require that a server be configured. Note that these Mock connections currently are per-instance, if another connection is instantiated, none of the data will be shared.

Using the Mock is as simple as this:

    var couchbase = require('couchbase').Mock;
    var db = new couchbase.Connection();

Documentation

An extensive documentation is available on the Couchbase website. Visit our Node.js Community on the Couchbase website for the documentation as well as numerous examples and samples.

Source Control

The source code is available at https://github.com/couchbase/couchnode. Once you have cloned the repository, you may contribute changes through our gerrit server. For more details see CONTRIBUTING.md.

To execute our test suite, run make test from your checked out root directory.

License

Copyright 2013 Couchbase Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

See LICENSE for further details.