changes-stream
A fault tolerant changes stream with builtin retry HEAVILY inspired by
follow
. This module is a Readable
Stream with all of
the fun stream methods that you would expect.
install
npm install changes-stream --save
Options
So changes-stream
can take a fair bit of options in order so that you can
fully customize your _changes
request. They include the following:
{
db: 'http://localhost:5984/my_db', // full database URL
feed: 'continuous', // Can also be longpoll technically but not currently implemented
filter: 'docs/whatever', // Can be a defined couchdb view, a local filter function or an array of IDs
inactivity_ms: 60 * 60 * 1000, // time allow inactivity before retrying request
timeout: 2 * 60 * 1000, // http timeout
since: 0, // update sequence to start from, 'now' will start it from latest
heartbeat: 30 * 1000, // how often we want couchdb to send us a heartbeat message
style: 'main_only', // specifies how many revisions returned all_docs would return leaf revs
include_docs: false // whether or not we want to return the full document as a property
}
Example
var ChangesStream = require('changes-stream');
var changes = new ChangesStream('http://localhost:5984/my_database');
changes.on('readable', function () {
var change = changes.read();
});