How do I save an updated CouchDB doc with Evently?

Question

I'm following IBM's tutorial on CouchDB and ran into a problem saving edited documents. Saving a new doc works fine, and it looks like all my existing doc's values (retrieved via the openDoc function) are valid, but the new values are simply not taking.

As I trace through the executing code, it looks like the new values are there:

However, after saveDoc returns successfully (strange!), the doc is not updated. If I log the updated doc, the logged object has no _id or _rev values, though you can clearly see they were present while saving (see first screenshot).

Is there some nuance of saveDoc, or perhaps Evently, that I'm not understanding?

Answer 1

In your success callback, you are not logging the updated document, your are logging the newdoc object from line 87 (minus it went through the saveDoc function, which apparently undefined _id and _rev, but that's ok).

The success callback can have an argument that is the response from the server. If you write :

success: function(data) {
    console.log(data);
}

you should see in the response a new _rev starting with 2-.

If you really want to see the full doc once updated, just call openDoc from your success callback to get the updated version.

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Other detail, when you say

saveDoc returns successfully

I think you meant that the success callback is called, because saveDoc is asynchronous and should return instantly anyway.