# Mojo::CouchDB
A Mojolicious wrapper around [Mojo::UserAgent](https://docs.mojolicious.org/Mojo/UserAgent) that makes using [CouchDB](https://couchdb.apache.org/) from
Perl, a lot of fun.
```perl
use Mojo::CouchDB;
# Create a CouchDB instance
my $couch = Mojo::CouchDB->new('http://localhost:6984/books', 'username', 'password');
# Make a document
my $book = {
title => 'Nineteen Eighty Four',
author => 'George Orwell'
};
# Save your document to the database
my $save = $couch->save($book);
$book->{_id} = $save->{_id};
$book->{_rev} = $save->{_rev};
# If _id is assigned to a hashref, save will update rather than create
say $book->{_id};
say $book->{_rev};
$book->{title} = 'Dune';
$book->{author} = 'Frank Herbert'
# Re-save to update the document
$save = $couch->save($book);
say $save->{_id}; # Same id as above
# Get the document as a hashref
my $dune = $couch->find({ _id => $book->{_id} })->{docs}->[0];
```
## Installation
```bash
$ cpanm Mojo::CouchDB
```
## Basics
This is an example of a [Mojolicious::Lite](https://docs.mojolicious.org/Mojolicious/Lite) application using
[Mojo::CouchDB](#).
```perl
use Mojolicious::Lite -signatures;
use Mojo::CouchDB;
helper user_db => sub {
state $user_db = Mojo::Couch->new('http://127.0.0.1:5984/users', 'username', 'password');
};
get '/:user' => sub {
my $c = shift;
my $user = $c->user_db->find({ _id => $c->param('user') })->{docs}->[0]
|| return $c->rendered(404);
return $c->render(json => $user);
};
app->start;
```
It is recommended to use a helper when using Mojo::CouchDB with Mojolicious.
## Author
Rawley Fowler
## Credits
Sebastion Riedel (the creator of Mojolicious).
The Apache Foundation for making CouchDB.
## Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 2023, Rawley Fowler
This library is free software; you may distribute, and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License version 2.0.