Well, crazy or not I actually (somehow) convinced someone to help me out. And boy did he help! I got some of the basics going and then Cory took off with them. He’s put a lot into this plugin and for that I wanted to publicly thank him.
Now, onto the nitty-gritty. This is an alpha release, so it’s still missing some features (mainly object inheritance and any kind of relational mapping right now). Basically what you can do is to create an object and save it in a CouchDB database. We have some configuration options and some other cool things that you can try out like loading/reloading of views in your database.
Here are some of the basics of what you can do with the gorm-couchdb plugin
- Save a class as a CouchDB document
- Specify the type of document you want to save (special field in the database)
- Save attachments with a document
- Specify a custom id an version field to use for your class/document
- Load and reload .js views directly into your database when they change
There is a short how-to on the wiki. To install it you can just do a
grails install-plugin gorm-couchdbor download from the Grails Web site.
We’ve switched the main repo over to Cory’s since he’s been doing most of the work at this point and I’ve shifted into more of a project management role. I’ll get to down to some more development of features I really want (like composite keys) in the near future.
For bugs, please use the one on Github, we will be doing all of our release planning over on PivotalTracker. We haven’t setup a separate mailing list but both of us are on the grails user and dev lists. If you would like to become more involved contact either of us through the Github system.
Finally, if you are developing a different NoSql grails plugin we want to talk to you. Primarily we want to see if we can coordinate our efforts and if there’s any common ground we can agree on so that we aren’t all reinventing the wheel.
