Error when restoring: POST body must include `docs` parameter. about couchdb-dump HOT 4 OPEN

I opened the 700MB JSON file and changed the "rows" key to "docs". Now everything works.

Is it possible that CouchDB changed what it expects in a recent version?

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Almost definitely :)
I haven't touched couchdb in a couple of years now tbf.
Likely solution is to:

• Find out when this API endpoint changed (probably v2)
• Lookup couchdb version via API, and apply/replace expected header

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Hm. Nope. Not all is good after all. Now that the docs key exists on the top level, restoring does work.

But: The docs restored are not the original docs. There is an extra level above my real docs:

{
  "_id": "5e6feecbefa009744c40317f0600055f",
  "_rev": "1-4ac3fbddf2bf31d2ecd272795fcb1d7b",
  "id": "680EB898-F894-4669-85DE-A71CEDD891FD",
  "key": "680EB898-F894-4669-85DE-A71CEDD891FD",
  "value": {
    "rev": "11-cbac56e9e5ab244c00b0b162fa401985"
  },
  "doc": {
    "_id": "680EB898-F894-4669-85DE-A71CEDD891FD",
    "_rev": "11-cbac56e9e5ab244c00b0b162fa401985",
    "Gruppe": "Fauna",
    "Typ": "Objekt",
     ... and a lot more
}

The expected doc is the one in the doc key.

Where does the extra level and its keys come from?

Just to make it clear: Above is a doc after restoring with the rows key corrected to docs to evade the error.

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Plus: I have now tried it out in these CouchDB versions:

• 2.3.0
• 2.2.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.6.1

In all I got the POST body must include docs parameter error if I let the rows key untouched.

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