how to add a user?

[SerkanSipahi]

1.) This is not a bug or issue, its just a question for how to add a user to "org.couchdb.user:myuser" ! i found nothing about it in yours test.
2.) What happens e.g. when kivik not supporting to addUser? what to do then? maybe something like this: https://github.com/flimzy/kivik/blob/8bd551c52ecc2918bb2e9eb48969a578e791d1c7/serve/couchserver/session_test.go#L23 but in this case httptest.NewRequest("PUT", "/_users", nil).... ?!?
There is an example for getUser https://github.com/flimzy/kivik/blob/987ab2b4511ca6e42961c48a29e899978d21bce9/authdb/usersdb/usersdb.go#L36 but not for addUser
3.) Why do I ask so many questions? Because im very new with golang (since 9 month) and just 1 month with couchdb.

I hope you'll understand :( please show me a way :)

[flimzy]

Kivik does not currently support user manipulation (adding, updating, or deleting users). I have always handled this through the management interface (Fauxton, etc). But it's probably a good idea to add support to Kivik, too.

[SerkanSipahi]

@flimzy How do you handle features they are not supported in kivik? maybe like this? in very plain style?

type User struct {
	Name     string        `json:"name"`
	Password string        `json:"password"`
	Roles    []interface{} `json:"roles"`
	Type     string        `json:"type"`
}

data := User{
	// fill struct
}
userBytes, err := json.Marshal(data)
if err != nil {
	// handle err
}
body := bytes.NewReader(userBytes)

req, err := http.NewRequest("PUT", "http://localhost:5984/_users/org.couchdb.user"+data.Name, body)
if err != nil {
	// handle err
}
req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/json")
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
	// handle err
}
defer resp.Body.Close()

[flimzy]

Yes, that's a reasonable approach as a stop-gap, until I have time to add user management to Kivik. :) I'll try to get around to adding that soon, but it may be a week or two before I have time.

[SerkanSipahi]

@flimzy ok thank you. Let me know when it implemented :)

[flimzy]

Please forgive my hasty response earlier; adding a standard user is quite possible with Kivik, as users are stored as standard documents. It is creation of admin users which is not currently possible.

For your use case, just do something like this:

	client, _ := kivik.New(context.TODO(), "couch", "http://localhost:5984/")
	usersDB, _ := client.DB(context.TODO(), "_users")
	user := map[string]interface{}{
		"_id":      kivik.UserPrefix + "username",
		"type":     "user",
		"password": "abc123",
	}
	_, _ = usersDB.Put(context.TODO(), kivik.UserPrefix+"username", user)

[SerkanSipahi]

my quote:

please show me a way :)

this is a way "for me" how to handle features thats not implemented in kivik ! thank you very much :)

[flimzy]

Sorry it took me a while to catch up... I guess I was sleeping when I responded yesterday. :)

I'll add this example to the wiki before I close this issue.

[SerkanSipahi]

Sorry it took me a while to catch up... I guess I was sleeping when I responded yesterday. :)

lol

I'll add this example to the wiki before I close this issue.

I think this will help many developers. Your example is very useful for many cases. Its reduce my example to few lines of code :)

[flimzy]

The wiki is now updated.

[SerkanSipahi]

thanks.