From http://www.cmlenz.net/archives/2007/10/couchdb-joins Every post and comment is stored as a separate document with the same schema. The key "acl" is an array of usernames that are allowed to see the

Now that Windbringer's been upgraded, I was able to install and run CouchDB. Which means that I've been hacking around. Take cover. Incoming JSON and incoherent rambling. couchdb listens on 127.0.0.1:5984 by default. Configure Tor to expose port 5984/tcp on <foo>.onion. Voila. creating new databases (even remotely) is as simple as making an HTTP request to localhost:5984 consisting of PUT http://localhost:5984/<database> Then documents can start being added to it. The array "acl" has a couple of default values. An an entry "all" mean that anyone can read and replicate it. "private" means that only the author is allowed to access it; an empty entry means the same thing. post. By extension, this is also the list of nodes that are allowed to replicate this document. The field "post" is an integer that increments with every blog post one makes. This field is used to tie together a post and all comments that are tied to it. The key "type" is the type of document, either "post" (a blog post) or "comment" (a comment on a blog post). database name: n25_blog_<username> blog schema: {_id: "autogenerated", _rev: "autogenerated, too", acl: ["all", ], author: "me", content: "Contents of my blog post", post: 0, title: "Frist psot!", type: "post", } Every bookmark one stores is kept as a separate document in a database. All have the same schema. The "acl" key works as defined earlier. Eventually, I'd like to make a JavaScript bookmarklet that makes it much easier to store a bookmark in this database. I'm not sure if bookmarks are going to be private only (i.e., personal) or database name: n25_bookmarks_<username> bookmarks schema: {{title: "", url: "", description: "", tags: ["", ], categories: ["", ], acl: ["all", ], date_added: ["YYYY/MM/DD", "HH:MM", "TZ"], date_modified: ["YYYY/MM/DD", "HH:MM", "TZ"], }, } Yes, I know that JSON documents aren't really schemas. I need to call them something, and I don't yet know the terminology ("layout" says HTML to me and not the format of the data in a document because it's not markup. Then again, I relate to device drivers better than I do websites.) database name: n25_profile_username profile schema (dumped from my CouchDB instance and reformatted for readability): { "_id": "<autogenerated>", "_rev": "<autogenerated>", "profile": "{"chosen_name": "Bryce A. Lynch", "aliases": ["Bryce", "The Doctor [412/724/301/703][ZS|Media]", ] gender: ["Androgynous", ], identification: "Organic sapient with semiautonomous software augmentations", location: "I am everywhere.", email_addresses: ["virtualadept@gmail.com", "bryce.lynch@zerostate.net", "bryce@somewhereelse.com", ], websites: ["https://drwho.virtadpt.net", ], IM: [{network: "gchat", protocol: "XMPP", handle: "virtualadept@gmail.com"}, {network: "Network25", protocol: "torchat", handle: "foo.onion"}, ], public_keys: [{"My PGP public key goes here"}], profile_address: ["something.onion", ], tor_sites: [""], bio: "This is where I write freeform stuff about myself.", interests: ["ad-hocracy", "anhedonia", "anonymity", "privacy", "assembly language", "blogging", "hacktivism", "tor", "python", "mesh networking", "couchdb", ], skillset: ["system administration", "system architecture", "information security", "security research", "mesh networking", "linux", "bsd", "software engineering", ], projects: [{name: "Project Byzantium", position: "core developer", website: "http://project-byzantium.org"}, {name: "Zero State: Media", position: "Project Manager", website: "http://zerostate.net/"}, ], affiliations: ["Project Byzantium", "Zero State", ], bitcoin_address: "blahblahblah", blog_db: "n25_blog_brycealynch", bookmarks_db: "n25_bookmarks_brycealynch", }, "friends": "{acl: ["all", ], friends: [{chosen_name: "Amon Zero", local_name: "Amon", profile_address: "something_else.onion"}, ] }", "cached_friend_profiles": "{}", // Note, these are duplicates of the profiles of everyone on this user's friends list. I'm not going to reproduce them here. "date_updated": ["2012/12/08", "18:19", "EST5EDT"], "groups": "[acl: ["all", ], {name: "Zero State General", description: "General Zero State discussion", database: "zerostategeneral", }, {name: "Network25 Updates", description: "Status and development reports for the Network25 package", database: "n25updates", }, {name: "", description: "", database: "", },]" } TODO: Finish adding ACLs to the profiles. Also, figure out how to write CouchDB design docs to make this information accessible without using Futon. -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS|Media] https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "I am everywhere." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ZS-P2P" group. To post to this group, send email to zs-p2p@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to zs-p2p+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. 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